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art history, Dürer, Northern Art, Rubens, Jordaens, Post Colonial Studies, Slavery Studies, Prostitution, Covid Art, Diseases in Art, Pandemic art, Aby Warburg, Dis/ability Studies, Curiosities, Iconoclasm, Artist, Women Artists, Renaissance Art, Baroque Art, Art and confessionalization, the social history of the artist, illustrated books, proverb images, genre painting, Long Covid, Rembrandt, dwarfs, court dwarfs, Exhibitions, history of collections, illness, early modern art, gender, Intersectionality, tomb sculpture, arttheorie
Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom, Suriname, Italy

Biography

Birgit Ulrike Münch specializes in late medieval and early modern Northern art. Her interests include Renaissance and Baroque Paintings and Prints (primarily Northern and Southern Netherlands, Germany and France), Illness and Art from the Late Middle Ages up to Long Covid, Art in the Era of confessionalization, the history of the body and sexuality (e.g. "Dwarfs" at Court 1300-1800), the "trinity" of gender, race and class, the social history of the female artist, exhibitions and global art collections, illustrated books (15th-18th century), Proverb images, the birth of genre paintings and its art theory.

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Employment (8)

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2021-05 to present | Vice rector for International Affairs
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

University of Bonn: Bonn, DE

2016-10-01 to present | Professor Art History (General Art History)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2018-10 to 2020-04 | Executive Director (General Art History)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Technical University Dresden: Dresden, DE

2016 | Substitution of the chair (Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

University of Trier: Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, DE

2009 to 2016 | Temporary academic councillor (Art History)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Universität Trier: Trier, DE

2005 to 2009 | Research assistant (Chair of General Art History)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege: Munich, DE

2004 to 2004 | Research assistant
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg: Heidelberg, DE

2003 to 2004 | Research assistant (Art History)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Education and qualifications (4)

Universität Trier: Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, DE

2016 to 2016 | Habilitation Thesis (Art History)
Qualification
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Universität Trier: Trier, DE

2007 | Doctorate (Art History)
Qualification
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Munich, DE

2004 to 2004 | PhD student
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, der Universität Paris IV (La Sorbonne) und der FU Berlin: Heidelberg, Paris, Berlin, DE

1995 to 2003 | MA in History of Art and Medieval and Modern History
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Professional activities (26)

Comité International d´histoire de l´Art: Bonn, DE

2021-12 to present | Suppléante
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Nuremberg, DE

2021 to present | Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Dürer online: Heidelberg, DE

2021 to present | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2020 to present | Member of the Faculty Council (Faculty of Philosophy)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2020 to present | Member (DFG-Graduiertenkollegs Gegenwart/Literatur 2291)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Nuremberg, DE

2020 to present | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2019 to present | Member of the study committee (Faculty of Philosophy)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2019 to present | Elected Member (steering committee Transdisciplinary Research Area 5 „Past Worlds and Modern Questions. Cultures Across Time and Space)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2019 to present | Member of the board (Centre Ernst Robert Curtius)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Bonner Kunstverein: Bonn, DE

2019 to present | Member of the board
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2018 to present | Member of the habilitation committee (Faculty of Philosophy)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2017 to present | Member (Centre for the Classical Tradition )
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Bonn, DE

2016 to present | Member of the Evaluation Project Group (Art History)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

The Conference Group for Interdisciplinary Early Modern German Studies: Washington, US

2015 to present | member of the executive committee
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Sixteenth Century Society & Conference: Naperville, IL, US

2007 to present | Member
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Renaissance Society of America: New York, New York, US

2007 to present | Member
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Historians of Netherlandish Art: Highland Park, New Jersey, US

2007 to present | Member
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker: Bonn, DE

2003 to present | now: Member; for many years (until appointment in 2016): Head of the Section for Habilitation Students
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

University of St Andrews: St Andrews, UK, GB

2022-09-01 to 2022-10-15 | Senior Global Fellow (History)
Invited position
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Arbeitskreis für Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte: Wuppertal, DE

2017 to 2021 | Member of the board - spokeswoman for the area of ​​universities
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Universität Trier: Trier, DE

2009 to 2016 | Elected member of the study committee (Art History)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Universität Trier: Trier, DE

2007 to 2016 | Elected Member (Senate Commission for Equal Opportunities)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Trierer Zentrum für Mediävistik: Trier, DE

2007 to 2016 | Member of the board
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungszentrum Trier : Trier, DE

2007 to 2016 | Member (advisory) of the board and responsible for the young scientists of the center together with PD Dr. Christian Jörg
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte: Paris, FR

2010 | Auszeichnung Zeit Stiftung Gerd und Ebelin Bucerius
Distinction
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte: Munchen, Bayern, DE

2008 | Wolfgang Rathen Prize
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Funding (5)

MeWo Mentoring program for Women

2020 to present | Contract
Federal Foreign Office Division Fund (Berlin, DE)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Prostitution, Serfdom, Slavery. Picturing Female Dependencies in Early Modern Amsterdam and Surinam

2020 to present | Contract
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (Bonn, DE)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

The Dutch are back. Still lifes and colonialism

2020 to 2023 | Contract
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bonn, DE)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

abybonn: Aby Warburg in Bonn

2019 to 2022 | Contract
Gielen-Leyendecker-Stiftung and Dr. Peter Deubner-Stiftung (Bonn, DE)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rulers on display. Tombs and Epitaphs of Princes and the Well-Born in Northern Europe 1470-1670

2018 to 2022 | Contract
Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto and DAAD (Toronto and Bonn, Canada and Germany, CA)
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

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Aby Warburg und Bonn

with Dr. Hui Luan Tran
2023 | Book
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Aby Warburgs Lehrer

with Dr. Hui Luan Tran
2022 | Book
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Augenlust? Niederländische Stillleben im Detail

with Lothar Altringer, Alexandra Käss und Jan-David Mentzel
2022 | Book
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Grasping eternity. The cadaver tomb of René de Chalon (1547)

Rulers on display. Tombs and Epitaphs of Princes and the Well-Born in Northern Europe 1470-1670
2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Journal für Kunstgeschichte

Journal für Kunstgeschichte
2022 | Other
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Long Covid - Unfortunately not "past". Mapping (In)Visibility Perspectives from the Medical Humanities and Art History

In the Realm of Corona Normativities II. The Permanence of the Exception
2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Prostitution, Serfdom, Slavery. Picturing Female Dependencies in Early Modern Amsterdam

Exzellenzcluster Beyond Slavery and Freedom and Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS)
2022 | Working paper
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Rulers on display. Tombs and Epitaphs of Princes and the Well-Born in Northern Europe 1470-1670

with Ethan Matt Kavaler, Series des Reformation and Renaissance Centers University of Toronto
2022 | Book
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Bilder der Pandemie. Wirkungen und Korrekturen

Konrad Ott, Ulrich Stephani, Claudia Bozzaro und Karin Kunde
2021 | Lecture
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Der belgische Dürer. Die Niederlandereise in der Rezeption des 19. Jahrhunderts

Dürer war hier. Eine Reise wird Legende
2021 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Die Macht der Krankheits-Bilder. Seuchen in der Kunst

Forschung und Lehre 4/21
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Dürer as an icon of 19th century Belgium

Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist
2021 | Other
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Idealmutter für ‚Hofzwerge‘ und Volk – Witwe im Habit der Macht. Rollenmodelle und Agitationsräume Isabella Clara Eugenias (1566–1633)

Gender Power Sovereignty – Interdisciplinary Studies on Premodern Power
2021 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Transformer le monument funéraire. Möglichkeitsräume künstlerischer Überbietung des französischen Monuments im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

co-edited with Wiebke Windorf
2021 | Book
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Soll ich bleiben, soll ich gehen? Antwerpen als kulturelles (Transfer)-Zentrum. Arbeitsbedingungen und Migrationsbewegungen flämischer Künstler

Peter Paul Rubens und der Barock im Norden
2020 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Diverse Katalogartikel in: Peter Paul Rubens und der Barock im Norden

Christoph Stiegemann, Petersberg 2020.
2020 | Other
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Im An-Gesicht von Corona. Zur Ästhetik der Pandemie

Online-Reihe „Lebenszeichen“ der Universität Bonn
2020 | Interactive resource
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Künstlerreisen: Fallbeispiele vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Forums Irsee 7)

with Andreas Tacke, Markwart Herzog und Sylvia Heudecker, Petersberg
2020 | Book
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Neuer Wein in alten Schläuchen? Luthers Passional als frühneuzeitliches Substitut der mittelalterlichen Heiligenlegenden

Häuslich, persönlich, innerlich. Bereiche der privaten Frömmigkeitsausübung
2020 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Diverse Katalogartikel (u.a. Hexendarstellungen, Hexensabbat, Speculum passionis, Beschlossen gart des rosenkranz mariae)

Hans Baldung Grien. Heilig/unheilig
2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Diverse Katalogartikel in: Michael Wolgemut. Mehr als Dürers Lehrer

Benno Baumbauer, Dagmar Hirschfelder und Manuel Teget-Welz, Regensburg 2019.
2019 | Other
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Don´t judge a book by its cover. Feyerabend´s Figuren between religious faith, artist´s book and pre-modern business plan

Crossroads. Frankfurt am Main as Market for Northern Art, 1500-­1800
2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Georg Forster: Ansichten vom Niederrhein, von Brabant, Flandern, Holland, England und Frankreich im April, Mai und Junius 1790

Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter, 3/2019
2019 | Book review
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Künstlerfeste in Zünften, Akademien, Vereinen und informellen Kreisen (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Forums Irsee 6)

with Andreas Tacke, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Markwart Herzog und Sylvia Heudecker, Petersberg
2019 | Book
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

La grosse banquière und nòstre bon rei Enric. Formen bildimpliziter Kritik an der/dem Herrschenden um Maria de’ Medici (1573–1642)

Criticising the Ruler in Pre-Modern Societies – Possibilities, Chances, and Methods. Kritik am Herrscher in vormodernen Gesellschaften – Möglichkeiten, Chancen, Methoden (Macht und Herrschaft 6)
2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Pildwerck figuren neuen Typs: religiöse Druckgrafik im Werk Wolgemuts

Mehr als Dürers Lehrer
2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Gottfried Kinkel: Pionier und Wegbereiter des Faches Kunstgeschichte

Das kunsthistorische Institut in Bonn. Geschichte und Gelehrte
2018 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

MATERIAL CULTURE. Visibility of Artists, Guilds and Brotherhoods in the Premodern Era

co-edited with Andreas Tacke and Wolfgang Augustyn
2018 | Book
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

On the Existence of Confessional Typology in Lutheran Texts and Images

Visual Typology
2018 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

BilderGewalt. Zerstörung – Zensur – Umkodierung – Neuschöpfung (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Forums Irsee 5)

with Andreas Tacke, Markwart Herzog, Sylvia Heudecker, Petersberg
2018 | Book
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Crossroads: Frankfurt am Main as Market for Northern Art, 1500-1850

co-edited with Lisa Kirch and Alison Stewart
2018 | Book
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Eine Pathosformel für Mailand. Jacob Jordaens’ „Carlo Borromeo bittet für die Pestkranken“ in der Antwerpener Sint Jacobs-Kerk

Reframing Jordaens Pictor doctus - Techniken - Werkstattpraxis / pictor doctus - techniques - workshop practise
2018 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Justus Müller Hofstede (1929-2015) und die Niederländische Kunstgeschichte am Bonner Institut

Das kunsthistorische Institut in Bonn. Geschichte und Gelehrte
2018 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

On the Existence of Confessional Typology in Lutheran Texts and Images

Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe
2018 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Reframing Jordaens. Pictor doctus - techniques – workshop practise

co-edited with Justus Lange
2018 | Book
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

‘Grünhanß’ or, How Hans Baldung Became a ‘Green Artist’

Imagery and Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Chipps Smith
2018 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

„Der Apfel in der Kunst“

NDR, HR and RBB
2018 | Other
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Praying Against Pox. New reflections on Albrecht Dürer ́s Jabach Altarpiece

The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400-1700 Essays in Honor of Larry Silver, (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Band: 271/22)
2017 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Barocke Thesenblätter

Handbuch Rhetorik und die bildenden Künste
2017 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Gesamte Katalogbeiträge im Kapitel VII: Tugenden und Untugenden

Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). Mythos Macht und Menschlichkeit
2017 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Gesamte Katalogbeiträge Kapitel X: Sinne und Affekte

Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). Mythos Macht und Menschlichkeit
2017 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Kunstmärkte zwischen Stadt und Hof. Prozesse der Preisbildung in der europäischen Vormoderne

co-edited with Andreas Tacke, Markwart Herzog, Christof Jeggle and Michael Wenzel
2017 | Book
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Künstlerinnen. Neue Perspektiven auf ein Forschungsfeld der Vormoderne (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Forums Irsee 4)

with Andreas Tacke, Markwart Herzog, Sylvia Heudecker, Petersberg 2017.
2017 | Book
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Ludwik Flecks Theorie vom Denkkollektiv und die historischen Kulturwissenschaften

Zyklos – Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie
2017 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Luthers Passion. Kontinuitäten und Zäsuren im druckgraphischen Bild der Passio Christi: Passional, Katechismen, Postillen und Evangelienharmonie

Die Reformation: Fürsten – Höfe – Räume
2017 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Passionsfrömmigkeit des 16. Jahrhunderts und die „Leidensbilder“ des Meisters von Meßkirch

Der Meister von Meßkirch. Katholische Pracht in der Reformationszeit
2017 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Webseminar (Webinar) zu flämischen Meistern (Jacob Jordaens)

VHS-Online Böblingen-Sindelfingen
2017 | Other
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Jenseits der Académie. Studien zu alternativen Kunstöffentlichkeiten in Frankreich und den Niederlanden von 1450-um 1815

2016 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

Karsthansens’ Kritik: Der gemeine man in der Druckgraphik der Reformationszeit

Ritter, Bauern, Lutheraner
2016 | Book chapter
Contributors: Birgit Ulrike Münch
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Birgit Ulrike Münch

There were aboundance of excellent Pictures, & huge Vasas of silver. It was Corpus Christis day. Die Fronleichnamsprozession als temporäres Kunstzentrum

Von kurzer Dauer? Fallbeispiele zu temporären Kunstzentren der Vormoderne (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Forums Irsee 3)
2016 | Book chapter
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