Born 1961, studied history, art history and literature in Bielefeld, Pisa, Venice and Utrecht. 2000 to 2007 research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Since 2008 research on Marie Ellenreder’s Italian diaries at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome and at the Institute of Art History in Florence. Freelance art historian based in Detmold.