Curriculum vitae

1943: Born in Vienna

1972: Doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy) in Vienna

From 1966: Academic student assistant at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna

1972: Assistant, responsible for the slide collection (until 1993),
in charge of the IT/AV room (1993–2006)

1974: Termination of long-standing work as editor of young-adult literature

1976–2008: Various functions of academic administration (member of the faculty team, faculty commissions, senate commissions, AKH-Beirat commission)

1978: Head assistant

From 1978: Academic custodian of the collections of Hardegg Castle

From 1998: Academic custodian of the collections of the municipality of Hardegg

1980–1989: Teaching assignments at the Sommerhochschule (summer school) of the University of Vienna

From 1980: Head of Forschungsunternehmen Wiener Ringstrasse (research enterprise Wiener Ringstrasse)

1981: Habilitation in Medieval and Early Modern Art History

1982: Honorary citizen of the municipality of Hardegg

1982–2008: Secretary general of the Gesellschaft für vergleichende Kunstforschung (society for comparative art research)

1984–1988: Member of the advisory board of the NÖ Kultursenat (cultural senate of Lower Austria)

1986–1996: Area advisor for the Dictionary of Art, London

1986/1987: Teaching assignments at the University of Graz

1988: Assistant professor

From 1988:  Member of the Denkmalbeirat (advisory board for monuments) of the Austrian Federal Office for the Care of Monuments

From 1992:  Chairman of the Rudolf-Jettmar Society

1993: Honorary title of associate professor

1995–2004: Chairman of the Burg- und Museumsverein Hardegg (castle and museum association Hardegg)

1997: Associate professor

1998–2000: Chairman of the facility management commission of the Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät (faculty of humanities) at the University of Vienna

From 1999:  Member of the academic advisory board of Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (encyclopaedia of artists of the world)

2003: Teaching assignments at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2005: Doctorate advisor at the Eindhoven University of Technology

2009: Retirement (continued activities in teaching and research)

2011: Doctorate advisor at the Central European University, Budapest

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