Doctor Susanne Meurer
Nationality: Germany
Year: 2000
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
Susanne Meurer received a Wingate Scholarship in spring 2000 to cover living expenses during the first year of her PhD at the Warburg Institute, London, on Joachim von Sandrart’s Teutsche Academie (Nuremberg 1670), the first major German treatise on art. During the final stages of her thesis, she accepted a position as print cataloguer at the British Museum, where she spent two years entering around 13,000 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German prints on the museum’s collections database which will be available online. She has since returned to the Warburg Institute for a three-year post-doctoral fellowship on ‘The reception of the Old German Masters from the late Renaissance to Early Romanticism’. The subject is a continuation of her interests in art historiography and the history of collecting, which grew out of her PhD research. Having already published various shorter pieces on Sandrart, she is currently turning her thesis into a book.