Authors

SABINE RUNDE has been a research assistant at the Museum of Applied Arts since 1983. Today she heads the Department of Europe, Middle Ages to

With Friedenstein Castle and its collections, Gotha has preserved a unique ensemble with its historic representative rooms from the Baroque and Classicist periods, the Ekhof

Peter Schmitt MA, born 1939, was deputy director of the Badische Landesmuseum Karlsruhe until 2004 and was responsible for the collection “Applied Arts from 1900”.

Biography and lectureships 1946 Born in Zürich 1962-63 Attended Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich (preliminary course Johannes Itten) 1963 Failed entrance examination to the specialist course taught by

Paul Scott, artist, author, curator and gardener. His works are represented in collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, the

was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1948. He is currently a senior researcher of Iranian arts. He also teaches several Iranian popular art courses to

studied Arabic and economics at the Leipzig University Oriental Studies Institute and took his doctorate in ethnology at Moscow University. For many years he was

Born 1961 in Brindisi, Italy Art historian. Master’s degree in Art History, University of Florence, 1985 Further studies in Contemporary Art, University of Bologna, 1986-92,

teaches political science, moral philosophy and bioethics at Paris-Est Créteil University, France. She has specialised in an anthropological approach of Western modernity, focused on the

is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York Uni- versity. He is the author of ‘Out of Time: Philip

completed his doctoral studies in prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1970. From 1971 to 1974 he headed the DFG project Ausgrabung

Born in 1959. After her Abitur apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller. From 1982 to 1987 she studied art history and new and Middle High German