Anna Schönemann

Visiting Scholar

Ph.D.

Residence: April 1–May 31, 2013

Profile

I have been a resident scientist and lecturer at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart since 2009. Before this, I worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2005 to 2008) on the analytical examination of art technology. In Stuttgart I am focusing on the investigation of works of art in particular studying the painting technique of Hans Holbein the Elder using Raman spectroscopy. From 2002 to 2005 I worked as a scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, USA, involved in the investigation of oil-resin varnishes and the study of the painting technique of Jean-Baptiste Oudry. I was head of the Analytical Laboratory of the Foundation of Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany from 1995 to 2002. My PhD studies were carried out on spectroscopic and chromatographic investigation of binding media at the Technical University Berlin, Germany and the University of Vienna, Austria, where I received my PhD in 2001.

My work focuses on the study of art technology with a special emphasis on the examination of  binding media and other artists´ materials using a combination of Raman and FTIR spectroscopic techniques and pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.

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