Karin Rührdanz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karin Rührdanz (born May 23, 1949 in Greifswald ) is a German art historian and Islamic scholar .

Life

Karin Rührdanz passed her high school diploma and the skilled worker examination as a company and transport railroader in 1967 and began studying oriental archeology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). In 1971 she completed her studies with a diploma and became a research student at the MLU. The doctorate took place in 1974 with Burchard Brentjes , Ingrid Schulze and Kuhert with a thesis on humanism and tradition in modern Arab painting , the doctorate B followed in 1985 with the work The Development of Persian Manuscript Illustration from the 14th to the 16th Century with special consideration of the miniature manuscripts kept in the GDR . Rührdanz became an extraordinary lecturer for Islamic archeology and art history at the Halle Section for Oriental and Classical Studies.

At the beginning of the 2000s, she headed the Islam and Integration project at the Elbe-Saale educational association in Magdeburg . From 2005 to 2007 she was involved in the project Islamic art objects in Viennese collections before she was appointed curator for Islamic art at the Royal Ontario Museum and Professor of Islamic Art at the University of Toronto in early 2007 .

Rührdanz primarily researches miniature painting in Islamic countries.

Fonts

  • Ismail Schammut , Henschelverlag, Berlin 1975 (World of Art)
  • Baghdad, capital of the caliphs , Urania, Leipzig-Jena-Berlin 1979 ( Akzent series , vol. 37)
  • Medieval Painting in the Orient (Ed.), Science Journalism Department of the Martin Luther University, Halle 1982 (Scientific articles from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 1982, 22nd I, articles on African and Asian studies, volume 16)
  • Oriental illustrated manuscripts from museums and libraries of the German Democratic Republic , Islamisches Museum Berlin , Berlin 1984
  • Turkish miniature painting , Seemann, Leipzig 1988 (Seemann-Kunstmappe) ISBN 3-363-00376-5
  • 15 years of excavations in Karasura , Beier and Beran, Langenweissbach 2001 (writings of the Center for Archeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region, Vol. 1)

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 519-520.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Islamic art objects in Viennese collections ( Memento from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Touch dance, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald