Sylvia Mattl-Wurm

Sylvia Mattl-Wurm (born August 20, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and art historian . From mid-2004 until the end of 2018, she was director of the Vienna Library in the City Hall in Vienna as the successor to Walter Obermaier .

Life

Mattl-Wurm studied history at the University of Vienna , after completing her doctorate initially worked as a research assistant at the Federal Monuments Office and came to the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna in 1983. She was involved in the conception and organization of numerous exhibitions and most recently worked as a curator for applied arts and registrar at the Wien Museum .

Sylvia Mattl-Wurm was married to the historian Siegfried Mattl, who died on April 25, 2015 .

In December 2018 she retired as head of the Vienna Library in the City Hall , in March 2019 Anita Eichinger was appointed her successor.

Publications

• Beautiful, healthy and morally pure. The desexualization of the female body through hygiene and the women's movement . In: Dawn of the Century of Women? Rosa Mayreder and feminism in Vienna around 1900. Exhibition catalog of the Historical Museum 1989
• The bathroom. Physical culture and hygiene in the 19th and 20th centuries . Vienna: Museums of the City of Vienna 1991 (Red.)
• Vienna, where death is no longer at home . In: Images of Death. Exhibition catalog of the Historical Museum 1992
• The failure of modernism in the Viennese museum system . In: Politics of Presentation. Museum and exhibition in Austria 1918-1945. Edited by Herbert Posch and Gottfried Fliedl. Vienna 1996
• Real faces? The death mask collection of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna . In: Exhibition catalog Ebenbilder. Copies of human body models. Edited by Jan Gerchow. Ruhrland Museum Essen 2001
• Creative density . In: Viennese silver. 1780 - 1914. Exhibition catalog Neue Galerie New York / Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 2003/2004
• Gerhard Fritsch at the Vienna City and State Library . In: Gerhard Fritsch. Writer in Austria. Edited by Stefan Alker and Andreas Brandtner. Vienna: special number 2005
• The city's memory. 150 years of the Vienna Library in the City Hall . Vienna: Oldenbourg 2005. ISBN 978-3-486-58080-8 (edited together with Julia Danielczyk and Christian Mertens)

Employee and curator at exhibitions

• Dream and reality. Künstlerhaus 1985
• Biedermeier and Vormärz in Vienna. Künstlerhaus 1990
• Gastarbajteri. Labor migration in Austria yesterday and today. Vienna Museum 2004

Awards

• 2019: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New head of MA 09 - Vienna Library in City Hall appointed . City hall correspondence of March 26, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019.
2. ↑ Gastarbajteri
3. ↑ Honor for long-time director of the Vienna Library. November 12, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Sylvia Mattl-Wurm in the catalog of the German National Library
• City hall correspondence dated April 29, 2004 on appointment
• City hall correspondence of April 29, 2004 about presentation by the City Councilor for Culture
• Sylvia Mattl-Wurm at Club Carriere