As an art historian, I am particularly interested in artistic techniques in the Middle Ages, such as the processing, production and simulation of materials as well as their meaningful function and use on the object. To this end, I include, for example, art technological analyses collected by conservators and restorers in my studies and interpret them according to art historical questions. At IMAREAL, I am currently working on a project proposal within the research area “Sensing Materiality and Virtuality”.
Main Areas of Teaching and Research
Medieval art (painting, sculpture); art techniques in the Middle Ages; iconography and iconology; digital art history; history and theory of restoration, conservation, and monument preservation.
Lectures at International Conferences
10/2025: Future for Polychromy, Collaborative projects in the field. Symposium organized by Project PoCo (Polychromy Conservation) and SRAL, The Conservation Institute. Museum Bonnefanten, Maastricht (NL), 31. Oktober 2025
09/2025: AIHV23, The 23rd International Congress of the Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre. LEIZA, Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie, Mainz (DE), 8–12 September 2025
Fused Glass Panes on the Rupertus Cross, Bischofshofen, AUT (together with K. Tarcsay, I. Pactat and R. Gritsch)
07/2025: IMC 2025, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Session Number 1502: Light as a Component in Medieval Art: The Artist’s Knowledge and the Insight of the Beholder, Leeds (UK), 7–10 July 2025
Light Literacy: Creating and Experiencing Lumen in Medieval Polychrome Sculpture
12/2024: 11th Annual ARDS Conference: Mixed Media: Sculptural Ensembles in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, London (UK), 11–13 December 2024
Polychrome Sculpture as Mixed Media Knowledge Container
9/2024: VII. Forum Kunst des Mittelalters: Licht: Kunst, Metaphysik und Naturwissenschaft im Mittelalter, Jena (DE), 25.–28. September 2024
8/2024: The 35th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2024, Napoli (IT), 26–28 August 2024
Knowledge Guided Clustering Medieval Polychromy (together with F.Sobieczky)