Dr. Ingrid Leonie Severin

21335 Lüneburg, Sülztorstr. 21-25, ST.312
Fon +49.4131.677-9021, ingrid_leonie.severin@leuphana.de

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Vita

Ingrid Leonie Severin is Art & Cultural Historian, researcher, producer and museum & exhibition curator. She studied Art History at Rheinisch-Westfälisch-Technische Hochschule RWTH Aachen, Max Planck Institutes in Florence and Rom (completing her PhD research at Deutsches Kunsthistorisches Institut & Bibliotheca Hertziana) PhD in 1987.  She worked as curator for Museums in Aachen & Cologne, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz SMPK Berlin and Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich (exhibitions- and work-catalogues). 

She has been research assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton with Professor Peter Paret, concentrating on the History of Museum and Collections in Modernism, research associate at WZB Berlin, research group Technological Systems, post-doc fellow of the Max Planck Society for the History of Science, focusing on the Immaterialization in art, Senior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Vienna, with focus on the curatorial work of Peter Greenaway.  .

The history of Art Cologne and its representation in media during the sixties was focus of a research-study with City of Cologne and WDR. She lectured at RWTH Aachen and University Vienna, department of Art History with Professor F.T. Bach on Contemporary Art, specializing in the Art of the Fifties & Sixties.
At Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin (2000) she worked as knowledge manager of the department of Virtual Environments (IMK VE) and New Media.  

In 2005 she was Head of the Museum für Neue Kunst at Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe ZKM, worked as curator for the International Centre of Light Art in Unna, museum kunstpalast Düsseldorf, NAMOC Peking and CAP Cologne.

Teaching

Her recent scientific focus is on the history video art and photography and the intersection of art and science.

Since 2010 she lives at Schaalsee and has been independently working as CEO of a gallery of contemporary art and is co-editor of a series of audiobooks about 20th century artists

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Thorn: zur Ausstellung Günter Thorn, "Kalkül und Romantik", im Museum Kunst-Palast Düsseldorf, Glasmuseum Hentrich, vom 3. März bis 16. September 2007
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Editor) , Günther Thorn (Illustrator) , 2007 Heidelberg , 64 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Exhibition catalogues › Transfer

  2. Augenblick und Endlichkeit: Das von der Photographie geprägte Jahrhundert. Werke aus der Sammlung Gruber.
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , Reinhold Mißelbeck (Editor) , 1999 Köln , 160 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Exhibition catalogues › Research

  3. LogIcons: Bilder zwischen Theorie und Anschauung
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Editor) , Ute Hoffmann (Editor) , Bernward Joerges (Editor) , 1997 Berlin , 251 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research

  4. Sammler, Stifter und Museen: Kunstförderung in Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Editor) , Ekkehard Mai (Editor) , Peter Paret (Editor) , 1993 Köln , 337 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  5. Baumeister und Architekten: Darstellung eines Berufsstandes in Porträt und Bildnis - Studien zur profanen Ikonografie 2. Ikonografische Untersuchung von 1400-1850
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 1992 Berlin , 240 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. Marcel Bois / Bernadette Reinhold (Hgg.): Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architektur. Politik. Geschlecht. Neue Perspektiven auf Leben und Werk, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag 2019
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 15.01.2021 , in: sehepunkte - Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, 21, 1

    Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research

  2. Wilhelm von Bode und die Kunst Ostasiens: Das Schicksal eines unvollendeten Museums asiatischer Kunst
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.10.1995 , in: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, 13/1995 , p. 3-16 , 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Die Weltausstellung und die Kugel
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.01.1992 , in: Ästhetik & Kommunikation, 21, 79 , p. 126-130 , 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  4. Wilhelm von Bode und das Asiatische Museum in Berlin Dahlem
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.01.1991 , in: Jahrbuch der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, XXVIII , p. 461-486 , 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Wie ein Donnerwetter. Das Geburtstagsbild Lovis Corinths von 1911 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.01.1990 , in: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, LI , p. 237-284 , 47 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Kunstkammer, Ostasiatische Weltkunst, Expressionistische Avantgarde neben Rokoko und Bauhaus-Moderne.: Die Bildwelten des Leopold Reidemeister, visionärer Erbe Wilhelm von Bodes zwischen Kaiserreich und Avantgarde
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.08.2017 München , p. 14-67 , 43 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  2. Topografische Spurensuche in Köln entlang der Achse Berlin–Köln. Wiedergutmachung und Wiederaufbau (1945–1957): Leopold Reidemeister als Mittler und Streiter für die Moderne
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.01.2017 München , p. 114-165 , 52 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  3. Leopold Reidemeister verhilft einem Engel nach Köln
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.01.2011 Köln , p. 20-26 , 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  4. Architekt-Amateur-Autodidakt
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.01.2009 1 ed. Hamburg , p. 314-325 , 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  5. Kunst-Handel im Medien-Wandel: Die Kölner Galerien und der Kunstmarkt in den Sendungen des WDR
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Author) , 01.01.2003 Köln , p. 83-97 , 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer

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Activities

  1. Vice-Chair und Gutachterin für EU Research and Excecutive Agency
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Reviewer)

    Activity: Peer review of project proposals › Research

  2. Museums & Virtual Environments
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Speaker) , Ernst Kruijff (Speaker) , Martin Goebel (Speaker)
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    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  3. Transcontinental guidance and exploration of digital cultural heritage (DHX).
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  4. Pop Art Seminar
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Lecturer)
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    Activity: Guest lectures › Education

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Press / Media

Prizes

  1. Walter Rathenau-Stipendium Max-Planck-Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Courses