Kathrin Müller (art historian)

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Kathrin Müller (born October 29, 1972 ) is a German art historian and university lecturer .

life and work

After training as a bookseller, Kathrin Müller studied art history and history in Hamburg and New York. From 2003 to 2005 she was a Predoctoral Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (with scholarships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst ). In 2006 she did her doctorate at the University of Hamburg with the thesis Visual World Appropriation. Astronomical and cosmological diagrams in Latin manuscripts from the 11th to early 14th centuries .

From 2006 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence / Max Planck Institute, from 2009 to 2016 temporary academic advisor at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main . In spring 2015 she was a fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown / Mass.

2018 habilitated it with the font changing media. Animals in silk patterns, drawings and tapestries from the 14th and 15th centuries . Since September 2017, she has been Professor of Medieval Visual Cultures at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Publications

  • Visual appropriation of the world. Astronomical and cosmological diagrams in manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Dissertation, University of Hamburg 2006 (university thesis) / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36711-7 .

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