Karin Gludovatz

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Karin Gludovatz (* 1970 in Mödling ) is an Austrian art historian with a focus on modern European art history, especially the art of the Netherlands. She has been a professor at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin since 2012 .

Life

Karin Gludovatz initially studied law before switching to art history in 1990 in combination with the elective subjects Classical Archeology and Sociology at the University of Vienna and the University of Hamburg . In 1999 she received a scholarship from the Vienna Emanuel and Sophie Fohn Foundation for highly talented graduates. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a study assistant in the slide library at the Art History Institute of the University of Vienna. She was also a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz . She was also responsible for lecture and film series at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna .

Afterwards, Gludovatz was a doctoral candidate between 2001 and 2003 at the Graduate College Practice and Theory of Artistic Creation at the Berlin University of the Arts , for which she received a doctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation . In 2004 she completed her doctorate at the University of Vienna with the thesis laying tracks - reading tracks. The artist's signature as a poietic reference . In 2006 she was awarded the Deubner Prize of the Association of German Art Historians .

Gludovatz was employed as a research assistant at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin from 2003 to 2009. During this time she was a visiting scholar at the Art History Institute in Florence in March and April 2007 . In the summer semester of 2009 she took on a substitute professorship at the University of Hamburg. From 2009 to 2012 Gludovatz was junior professor for modern European art history (14th to 18th centuries) at the Free University of Berlin, and since 2012 she has held a professorship there. In succession to Professor Eberhard Königs , she was the first woman to hold this position in the field of European art at Freie Universität. She is the dean of the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität. She has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2014 .

Initially, Gludovatz devoted himself to topics from Austrian art history such as cityscapes of Leopoldstadt and wrote, for example, biographies of the art historians Betina Kurth and Erika Doberer from Vienna. In addition, she also devoted herself to gender studies and the theory of art history. With her thesis Die Signaturen Jan van Eyck. Proof of authorship as an image-theoretical statement , she turned to the subject of the artist's signature , which she pursued in her dissertation.

Publications

  • Laying tracks - reading tracks. The artist's signature as a poietic reference , Munich 2011.
  • Art works. Aesthetics in Postfordism , Berlin 2015 [= joint publication of the DFG network "Art and Work"].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Friedrich Polleroß: Our graduate Karin Gludovatz first professor of art history at the FU Berlin , on kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at, accessed on June 19, 2016. ( Memento from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Employee profile of Karin Gludovatz on geschkult.fu-berlin.de, accessed on June 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gludovatz, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling