Karen Michels
Karen Michels (born July 11, 1959 in Rinteln ) is a German art historian .
Life
She studied in Bonn and Hamburg . After her dissertation on Le Corbusier in 1987, she received a scholarship at the Central Institute in Munich. From 1993 to 1997 she was a research assistant at the Art History Department of the University of Hamburg , dealing with the re-establishment and maintenance of the Warburg House . She did research in Paris and the USA . After completing her habilitation in 1997, she taught at the universities of Jena , Halle (Saale) and HU Berlin from 1998 to 2000 . Since 2002 she has been working for the "Agency / Academy for Art Understanding" in Hamburg.
Her focus is on the history of science, emigration, Warburg, Panofsky, modern architecture, symbol research.
Fonts (selection)
- The sense of the mess. Forms of work in the Atelier Le Corbusier . Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-528-08733-1 .
- Transplanted art history. German-language art history in American exile . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003276-6 .
- Aby Warburg. Under the spell of ideas . Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-55885-2 .
- Martin Luther - The Lessons of the Road. How the world changed the thinking of the reformer . Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86260-004-5 .
Web links
- Karen Michels on uni-hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karen Michels. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michels, Karen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rinteln |