Petra Bopp

Petra Bopp (* 1943 in Stuttgart ) is a German art historian .

Life

She studied art history , archeology and ethnology in Hamburg . From 1977 to 1980 she did research in Paris with a DAAD scholarship and graduate loan. After completing her doctorate in art history in Hamburg in 1990 on The Aesthetic Colonization of the Orient , she worked from 1990 to 1993 as a research assistant in the cultural department of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Department of Fine Arts. She held teaching positions from 1993 to 1995 and 2003 at the Art History Department of the University of Hamburg . From 1995 to 2001 she was the coordinator of the extermination war exhibition . Crimes of the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1944 at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the Association for the Promotion of the War of Extermination Exhibition in Hamburg. From 2002 to 2004 she was a freelance art historian and curator. From 2004 to 2006 she was a research assistant in the DFG research project Strangers in Sight. Private photography of Wehrmacht soldiers in World War II with Detlef Hoffmann at the University of Oldenburg . From April 2006 to December 2008 she continued the project with Norbert Frei at the University of Jena at the Jena Center for the History of the 20th Century with funds from the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. Since 2009 she has been the curator of the traveling exhibition Strangers in Sight. Photo albums from World War II . From 2013 to 2014 she was a fellow at the college research group BildEvidenz. History and Aesthetics at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Her main research interests are photography and art under National Socialism, war photography in the 20th century, and orientalism in photography and fine art in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century.

Fonts (selection)

• Fern-seen. French painting expeditions to the Orient 1865–1893 . Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 1995, ISBN 3-89445-158-0 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1990).
• as translator: Thomas Rowlandson. Grace, gallantry, grotesque - English pictorial satire between Rococo and Romanticism. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition "Thomas Rowlandson. Grazie, Galanterie, Groteske - English satire between Rococo and Romanticism" from May 19 to July 29, 2001 in the Wilhelm Busch Museum Hanover / German Museum for Caricature and Critical Graphics Georgengarten. With an essay by Karl Janke . Wilhelm Busch Museum, Hanover 2001, OCLC 48111922 .
• with Sandra Starke: Strangers in sight. Photo albums from World War II. Participating museums: Oldenburg City Museum, June 20, 2009 - September 13, 2009. JenaKultur - City Museum September 24, 2010 - November 14, 2010 . Kerber, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-312-6 .
• Strangers in sight. Photo albums from World War II. Accompanying the exhibition Strangers in Sight - Photo albums from the Second World War, Oldenburg City Museum, June 19 - September 13, 2009 ... JenaKultur - City Museum, September 23 - November 14, 2010 . Kerber, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-294-5 .

Web links

• Dr. Petra Bopp