Petra Sophia Zimmermann

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Petra Sophia Zimmermann (* 1962 in Bonn ) is a German art historian and university professor.

Life

Zimmermann, née Krämer, studied art history , oriental art history and business administration from 1982 to 1988 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. In 1983, she began an apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank AG in Cologne , who in 1985 with the commercial assistant examination completed. In December 1988 she finished her studies with a Magister Artium at the Art History Institute of the University of Bonn. In February 1991, a doctorate Zimmermann with the dissertation urbanism of the High Renaissance. Main ideas in theory and practice. The example of Verona. at the Art History Institute of the University of Bonn.

From 1991 to 1993 Zimmermann had a contract for work with the district of Celle and the Institute for Monument Preservation in Hanover to develop the publication Monument Topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. District of Celle. which was published in 1994 under her editing. From 1993 to 1998 she had a teaching position at the Institute for Art History at the Technical University of Braunschweig and from 1998 to 2003 a teaching position at the Institute for Art Studies at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . Her habilitation took place in 2000 at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig in the field of art studies / modern art history.

From 2002 to 2007 Zimmerman held a lectureship in urban history at the Institute for Building History and Monument Preservation of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences , Faculty of Architecture. She has been teaching art studies at this faculty since 2007. In 2011, Zimmermann took over art history lectures in the summer semester at the Institute for Restoration and Conservation Science at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Cultural Studies. In 2016 she became professor of art history at the Institute for Building History and Monument Preservation at the Technical University of Cologne and in April 2017 she was a visiting professor at the Milan Polytechnic . Zimmermann is the author of numerous specialist publications and building history reports.

Works (selection)

  • 111 places on Lake Garda and in Verona that you have to see. Emons, Cologne 2014; ISBN 978-3-95451-344-4 .
  • The Cologne city green. A discovery tour. (together with Karla Krieger) Mercator, Duisburg 2009; ISBN 978-3-87463-444-1 .
  • The dynamism of the 50s. Architecture and urban development in Cologne. (together with Stefanie Lieb ) Imhof, Petersberg 2007; ISBN 978-3-86568-295-6 .
  • The Architectura by Hans Vredeman de Vries . Development of Renaissance architecture in Central Europe. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002; ISBN 3-422-06370-6 .
  • Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. District of Celle. (as editor) Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994; ISBN 3-87585-254-0 .
  • Urbanism of the High Renaissance. Key ideas in theory and practice - the example of Verona. Eul, Bergisch Gladbach 1991; ISBN 3-89012-239-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Petra Sophia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krämer, Petra Sophia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn