Curriculum vitae

Born in Vienna on 16 July 1945 to Anton Theodor Schwarz and Maria Schwarz, née Bellella (both painters and graphic artists)

1951–1955: Primary school in Vienna's seventh district

1955–1963: Academic secondary school in Vienna's eighth district

25 June 1963: Secondary-school-leaving certificate at an academic secondary school in Vienna's eighth district

Winter semester 1963/1964: Enrolment at the Vienna University of Technology, studies of Architecture

From winter semester 1967/1968: Studies of History of Art and Architecture, and Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Vienna

Graduation at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna, title of doctoral thesis: Studien zur Klosterbaukunst in Österreich unter den letzten Babenbergern (studies on the architecture of monasteries built in Austria during the final years of the Babenberg reign), supervisors: Prof. Renate Wagner-Rieger and Prof. Gerhard Schmidt

17 December 1975: Doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy) at the University of Vienna

1980–1983: University lecturer at the Institut für Baukunst, Denkmalpflege und Kunstgeschichte (institute of architecture, restoration and art history) of the Vienna University of Technology: lectures in Art History for students of Architecture

1984: Habilitation (postdoctoral teaching qualification), Associate Professor of Medieval Building Archaeology at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna

Since 1985: Teaching assignments as associate professor at the University of Vienna

1987–1996: Teaching assignments at the Department of Art History of the University of Graz 1988–1992: Introductory lectures for exchange students from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at the Institut für Baukunst, Denkmalpflege und Kunstgeschichte of the Vienna University of Technology

1993: Honorary title of associate professor

1996: Head of a joint course offered by the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava: art history seminar Mittelalterliche Stadtbaukunst in Österreich und in der Slowakei (medieval town architecture in Austria and Slovakia)

2003: Elected member of the Commission of Egypt of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Winter semester 2004/2005 and winter semester 2005/2006: Visiting lecturer at the Institute of Christian Art at Charles University in Prague in the framework of ERASMUS teaching staff mobility

Winter semester 2006/2007: Seminar for doctoral students at the Facolta' di Architettura (faculty of architecture) of the Università degli Studi di Palermo in the framework of the ERASMUS staff mobility Programme

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