Sybille Ebert-Schifferer

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Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (born January 24, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian. From 2001 to 2018 she was director at the Bibliotheca Hertziana , the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome .

Life

Ebert-Schifferer attended the humanistic branch of the Hölderlin-Gymnasium Stuttgart , where she graduated from high school in 1974. She then studied musicology , theater studies , philosophy and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1974 to 1979 , interrupted by a study visit to Rome in 1976/77. In 1978 she worked as an assistant director and dramaturge at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and in 1980 assistant director at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . In 1979 she began studying at the TU Berlin, which she completed in 1982 with a Magister Artium in the two main subjects of art history and musicology.

Ebert-Schifferer received his doctorate in 1985 with a dissertation on Ripanda's frescoes in the Conservators' Palace in Rome. Since then she has been active in the museum and exhibition sector: from 1986 to 1990 she was responsible for the exhibitions in the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, from 1991 to 1997 as director of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt and from 1998 to 2001 as general director of the state art collections Dresden . From 2001 to 2018 she was director and academic member of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute, in Rome.

From 1997 to 2001 Ebert-Schifferer was first chairwoman of the Association of German Art Historians. From 1999 to 2001 she taught as honorary professor for art history at the TU Dresden .

Publications (selection)

  • 1988: Guido Reni and Europe: fame and fame
  • 1988: Ripanda's Capitoline fresco cycle and the self-portrayal of the conservators around 1500 (article)
  • 1998: The Story of Still Life
  • 2009: Caravaggio. See - be amazed - believe. The painter and his work . Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-59140-2

Awards

In 1994 Ebert-Schifferer was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic at the officer level of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

The French edition of the book The History of Still Life ( Natures mortes, Paris 1999) received the 1999 Prix François Sommer “Album”.

literature

  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 182.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ebert-Schifferer Dott.ssa Sybille, Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana quirinale.it, May 16, 2014.
  2. ^ Review of The History of Still Life at cosmopolis.ch from September 1999