Katharina Krause
Katharina Krause (* 1960 in Schlüchtern ) is a German art historian and university professor .
Life and work
She passed her Abitur at the Philippinum Grammar School (Marburg) . After studying art history , classical archeology and history at the University of Marburg , the LMU Munich and the Sorbonne , she received her doctorate in 1988 from the University of Munich. She then taught at the University of Freiburg , where she completed her habilitation in 1993.
In 1996 she took over a professorship for art history at the Philipps University of Marburg . She had previously turned down a call to the University of Münster in 1996, as well as accepting a professorship at the University of Cologne in 2003 . Her art-historical research focuses on French art and architecture and its imitations in German-speaking countries in the 17th and 18th centuries, the visual arts in southern Germany around 1500, and image and text in specialist art-historical literature.
Katharina Krause has been active in the academic self-administration since 1999, for example repeatedly dean of her faculty for German and Art Studies (1999–2000, 2004–2006). She has also been working intensively on the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2000. She is currently a member of the scientific “Advisory Board of the Humanities Funding Initiative of the DFG” (since 2004) and has been a member of the DFG Senate since 2006, where she was re-elected in 2009. In addition, she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Forum for Art History in Paris (DFK), one of ten DGIA institutes of the Max Weber Foundation . 2006–2010 she was one of the three vice presidents of the Philipps University, responsible for “research and knowledge transfer”.
At the municipal level, she has been an expert on the redesign of the inner-city campus of the University of Marburg in the “Advisory Board for Urban Design” of the City of Marburg since 1998. At the Hessian state level, she has been contributing her specialist knowledge to the “Advisory Board for Historical Regional Studies in Hesse” since 2005.
On November 30, 2009 Katharina Krause was elected President of the University of Marburg. She has been the head of the university since February 18, 2010. She is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .
Fonts (selection)
- Monographs
- The "Voeu de Louis XIII". The choir furnishings of Notre-Dame in Paris under Ludwig XIV. Tuduv, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88073-316-3 (dissertation)
- The maison de plaisance. Country houses in the Ile-de-France (1660–1730). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-422-06175-4 (habilitation thesis)
- How do you describe architecture? The Miss von Scudéry is walking through Versailles. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-7930-9322-0
- Hans Holbein the Elder (= Art Studies . Vol. 101). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-06383-8
- Editorships
- Lust for images and fruits of reading. The illustrated art book from 1750 to 1920 (book accompanying the exhibition in the Gutenberg Museum Mainz from March 4 to May 29, 2005). Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-86502-093-3
- History of the fine arts in Germany. Volume 4: Late Gothic and Renaissance. Prestel, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-423-34304-4
- with Klaus Niehr : work of art - image - book. The illustrated art book from 1730 to 1930. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-422-06696-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Katharina Krause in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage at the Art History Institute of the Philipps University of Marburg
- Homepage as President of the Philipps University of Marburg
- Katharina Krause in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krause, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schluechtern |