Julia Weber (art historian)

Julia Weber (* 1979 ) is a German art historian . Since 2016 she has been director of the porcelain collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden .

Life

From 1998 to 2005 Weber studied art history , classical archeology and French philology at the Universities of Augsburg and Bonn . In 2007 she received the Helmut Seling Prize for her master's thesis on the subject of art as an instrument of diplomacy: the porcelain gift exchange between the Saxon-Polish and French courts from 1745–1750 . In 2011 she received her doctorate from the University of Basel under Barbara Schellewald with a thesis on Meissen porcelain with decors based on East Asian models.

From 2005 to 2007 she was a trainee at the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund . She then went as a research assistant for the Bavarian National Museum in Munich , where she in 2012 as Deputy Officer responsible for the ceramic took collections, including in particular the collection of Meissen porcelain from the Ernst Schneider Foundation in Lustheim over which they had graduated. With the support of the Ceramica Foundation , she documented this collection in a two-volume catalog with 483 entries. She also worked on the development of a new permanent exhibition on the baroque and rococo holdings .

The selection of Weber as Ulrich Pietsch 's successor to head the porcelain collection in the Dresden Zwinger by a selection committee was confirmed by the Saxon cabinet . She took up the position on August 1, 2016.

Meissen porcelain with decors based on East Asian models. Ernst Schneider Foundation in Lustheim Palace. Edited by Renate Eikelmann. Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-9091-5 ( review )