After studying art history and cultural studies at Humboldt University Berlin, I worked on reserch positions in Berlin and Florence. Since 2014 I held professor positions in at the universities of Hamburg, Konstanz and Mainz and at Graz University.
My focus is on the early modern period and my main research interests are the history of collecting, the relationship between visual arts and natural sciences, printmaking and material culture. Currently I am working on a next monograph which will look at nature prints and related pictorial techniques in the context of botany, colonial economies and industrial image production from the early modern period to mid 19th century.
since 2020
Professor for Art History, University of Graz2018 – 2020
Visiting Professor for Art History, Universität Konstanz and Johann Gutenberg Universität Mainz2014 - 2018
Professor for European Art History of the 17/18th century, Universität Hamburg2012 - 2013
Invited researcher at the KHI Florenz / Max-Planck-Institute for Art History2011
Habilitation in Art History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin2002 – 2010
PostDoc Resarch Postion, Freie Universität Berlin2000
PhD in Art History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin1991 – 1997
Studies in Art History and Cultural Studies, Greifswald and Berlin