Dr. Katharine Stahlbuhk
Postdoctoral Fellow
Katharine Stahlbuhk is a trained conservator of wall paintings (2004-2006; Istituto per l'Arte e il Restauro Palazzo Spinelli in Florence). She studied Scienze per i beni Culturali (BA; 2007-2009) and Storia dell'Arte (MA; 2009-2011) at the Università degli Studi di Siena, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Arezzo and received her PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2018.
Between 2014 and 2018 she was, first, doctoral student and research assistant in the Alessandro Nova department and subsequently research assistant to Hana Gründler at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut. From 2019 to the end of 2021 she was research assistant to Tristan Weddigen at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History and from July 2022 to June 2023 Rush H Kress Fellow at Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. From July 2023 to June 2024 she was a postdoctoral fellow within the Prin project Books in Motion at the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichità of the Università di Padova.
She is currently working on a major project on convent libraries (primarily of the Dominicans) and during her time at the KHI together with Hana Gründler, she will organise a conference on Humanism between Ideal and Ideology. Images and Concepts of the Human, 1844-2024.
- Erhalt von Kulturgut; Kulturpolitik; Restaurierung
- Semantiken des Materials, der Farbigkeit und dessen Reduktion; Ausführungstechnik
- Wandmalerei (v.a. Frühe Neuzeit Italien)
- Visualisierung von Netzwerken, Frömmigkeitsidealen und Reformideen (v.a. Frühe Neuzeit)
- Mendikanten und Humanismus
- Konventbibliotheken