Lena Liepe

Lena Liepe (2016)

Lena Liepe (* 1962 ) is a Swedish art historian who has been a professor at Linné University in Sweden since 2017 .

Live and act

Liepe previously worked at the universities of Lund , Tromsø and Oslo . Her research interests are medieval fine arts and architecture in Northern Europe , art theory and methodology , gender perspective on medieval art and medieval Icelandic illustrated manuscripts .

She is a member of the scientific society in Lund (Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund), the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (Det Norske Videnskapsakademiet), the International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA) and the Swedish Art Critic Society (Svenska konstkritikersamfundet). She has received two of the largest awards in the Nordic region for humanistic research: the 2016 award from Jarl Gallén for “an excellent Nordic medieval historian” and the 2019 award from Gad Rausing for “her groundbreaking and profound studies of Nordic medieval art”.

bibliography

• The medeltida träskulpturen i Skåne. Production och förvärv (The medieval wooden sculpture in Skåne. Production and acquisitions). Skånsk senmedeltid och renässans 14, Lund: Lund University Press 1995 (dissertation).
• The medeltida träskulpturen i Skåne. En bilddokumentation (The medieval wooden sculpture in Skåne. An image documentation). Skånsk senmedeltid och renässans 15, Lund: Lund University Press (illustrated works of the dissertation), 1995
• Medieval Stone Churches of Northern Norway. The Interpretation of Architecture as a Historical Process , Tromsø: Ravnetrykk 25, 2001
• Crop the medeltida. Kroppens och Könets ikonografi i nordisk medeltid (The medieval body. Iconography of the body and gender in the Nordic Middle Ages), Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2003
• Tegn, symbol og tolkning: Om forståelse og fortolkning af middelalderens bilder (Signs, symbols and interpretation: Understanding and interpreting medieval images), Köpenhamn: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2003
• Konst also visual culture in Sverige. Före 1809 (Art and visual culture in Sweden. Before 1809), Stockholm: Atlantis, 2007
• Studies in Icelandic Fourteenth Century Book Painting , Reykholt: Snorrastofa, rit. VI / vol. VI., 2009
• A case for the middle ages. The Public Display of Medieval Church Art in Sweden 1847–1943 , Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies, 2018

Web links

• Lena Liepe ( Memento from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Working in the Swedish National Library (LIBRIS)
• Working in the Library of Congress

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Königl. Swedish Academy of Literature, History and Antiquities for a short biography (in Swedish)
2. ↑ Announcement of the Jarl Gallén Prize in the Historical Diary in Finland
3. ↑ The Royal. Swedish Academy of Literature, History and Antiquities Announces Award (in Swedish)