Focus

• Transcultural studies in European and Indian art history

• Dutch art of the 17^th and 18^th centuries

• Mughal painting

• Indian colonial painting

• European artists in India

Studies

• 2003-2011 Doctorate at the department of art history at the University of Vienna, title of the phd thesis: Die Rezeption indischer Miniaturen in der europäischen Kunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (The reception of Indian miniatures in European art of the 17^th and 18^th centuries).

• Parental leave in 2007 and 2009-10.

• 1995-2001 Master studies in art history, Indian art history, anthropology, before: Indian philology at Humboldt-University in Berlin and Free University Berlin.

          Title of the master thesis: Indische Einflüsse auf das Werk Rembrandts

          (Influences of Indian art on Rembrandt’s oeuvre).

• 1992-1995 Basic studies in French and Philosophy at Humboldt-University in Berlin.

Postdoctoral Research Projects

• Since 2019 Postdoctoral research fellow at Georg-August-University Goettingen, participating in the project Imperial Representation and Ceremony at the Court of the Great Moghul. It is part of the SFB 1167 Power and Souvereignty – Early Modern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective.

• 2013-2015 Postdoctoral research fellow and project leader of the mini-cluster MC 5.2 The Concept of the Copy. European Transformations of Indian Artefacts within the excellence-cluster  Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University.

Teaching

• 2015-2016 WiSe: Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), Picturesque Travel – Traveling Pictures: The Idea of Asia in Illustrated Travelogues

• 2015 SoSe: HCTS, Chinoiserie: Art or Fashion

• 2014-2015 WiSe: HCTS, The Sadhu and the Christian Hermit: Visual Concepts of Asceticism in India and Europe

• 2014 SoSe: HCTS, Pathways of Artistic Transfer between India and Europe

• 2013-2014 WiSe: HCTS, Europe’s Encounter with Indian Art in the Early Modern Period

Publications

• Books:

Die Rezeption indischer Miniaturen in der europäischen Kunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Petersberg 2015

(edited with Philipp Stockhammer), The Transformative Power of the Copy. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approach, Heidelberg 2017

• Articles:

(with Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer), ‘How to Succeed in Marketing Something Repulsive: A Recently Discovered Drawing of a Yogi by Willem Schellinks (1623-1678)’, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 81 (3), 2018, pp. 356-373

'Copying the World's Emperor. Dinglinger's Great Moghul and the French Model of Absolute Power', in: Forberg, Corinna; Stockhammer, Philipp (eds.), The Transformative Power of the Copy. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approach, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 375-402

(with Philipp Stockhammer), ‘Introduction’, in: Forberg, Corinna; Stockhammer, Philipp (eds.), The Transformative Power of the Copy. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approach, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 1-17

'What does the Emperor of India look like? European Representations of Indian Rulers (1650-1740)', in: Malekandathil, Pius (ed.), The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India, New Delhi 2016, pp. 213-248

'Imported Chronology. The Reception of Indian Miniatures and Contemporary Historiography in Europe in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries', in: The Medieval History Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (April 2014), pp. 107-144

• Reviews:

'Samarra – Centre of the World. 101 Years of Archeological Research on the Tigris', in: International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2013, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 419ff