Theresa Georgen

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Theresa Georgen (* 1946 in Mainz ) is a German art historian and emeritus professor .

Career

Theresa Georgen studied art history and archeology in Mainz, Tübingen and London and did her doctorate in Vienna in 1976 on the subject of Liber ad honorem augusti of Petrus de Ebulo with Otto Pächt . After working as a volunteer , curator and lecturer at Darmstadt , Berlin and Bern art museums, she was appointed professor for art history at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences in 1986 , Muthesius University of Art since 1994 , where Georgen was prorector from 1995 to 1999 .

In 1993 Theresa Georgen was the founding director of the "Institute for Women's Research (IGD)" at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences and from October 2000 to July 2004 she was director of the forum for interdisciplinary studies at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule. Georgen is a juror at the Körber Foundation for the German Study Prize and a member of the “ Art in Public Spaces ” commission of the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein .

Her research interests are the body in modern art and the constructions of femininity in art. “Bühnen des Selbst” (2006) is dedicated to the special autobiographical positions of contemporary female artists.

literature

  • Theresa Georgen, Carola Muysers: Stages of the Self. Muthesius-Kunsthochschule, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-9808798-6-0 .
  • Theresa Georgen, Ines Lindner, Silke Radenhausen: I am not me when I see. Reimer, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-49601-074-6 .
  • Theresa Georgen: Lotte Marx-Colsman. Artistic works between the Bauhaus and the present. Benteli, Bern 1985, ISBN 978-3-71650-523-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor Theresa Georgen
  2. ↑ Institute for Women's Research (IGD) ( Memento from May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Anja Herrmann: stages of the self
personal data
SURNAME Georgen, Theresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz