Thomas Maria Blisniewski

Thomas Maria Blisniewski (born September 28, 1960 in Aachen ) is a German art historian , cultural scientist and author with a focus on iconography and the cultural history of textiles . He is a scientist at the Institute for Art and Art Theory at the University of Cologne and a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Duisburg-Essen .

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Blisniewski studied art history , classical and Christian archeology and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn . After working for the city curator in Cologne and at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , he is now a scientist at the Institute for Art and Art Theory of the University of Cologne (on leave) and lecturer at the Free University of Berlin . Blisniewski is particularly concerned with the afterlife of ancient mythology in art, as well as with questions of tomb culture and female handicrafts . He combines cultural and art historical perspectives and is strongly theologically oriented.

Blisniewski lives with his wife and two children in Graz, Berlin and Rome.

Children of the Dark Night - The iconography of the Parzen from the late Middle Ages to the late XVIII. Century. Diss. Cologne 1992
Selected bibliography on ancient mythology and its survival. Cologne 1993
Women who hold the thread in their hands. Handicraft women, middle-class girls and country women from Rubens to Hopper. Munich 2009
Mothers who are in the picture. Portraits of mothers by famous painters: Rembrandt, Cézanne, Mary Cassatt, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and many others Munich 2010
The discovery of women in the Renaissance. Rulers, artists, live-in ladies. Munich 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Blisniewski, Thomas Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen