Draft:Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann

Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann is a German classical archeologist.

Gods in Color, a travelling exhibition of ancient polychromy, the original, brightly-painted, appearance of ancient sculpture and architecture.

Early life and education
Ulrike Koch, daughter of the art historian Georg-Friedrich Koch, grew up in Hamburg and Darmstadt and studied classical archeology in Munich and Bochum.

In 1994, she was honored in Bochum with the work Polychrome Bilder auf Weißgrundigen Lekythen. Witnesses of classical Greek painting with Volkmar von Graeve as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation.

In 1994/95 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. From 2007 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich. Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann teaches at the Universities of Augsburg and Göttingen.

Ancient polychromy
The results of the research work on ancient polychromy, which she worked on together with her husband Vinzenz Brinkmann.

Gods in color
The traveling exhibition Gods in Color, which showcases the work of Koch-Brinkmann and her husband has been shown at various locations (Glyptothek Munich, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt, Musei Vaticani Rome, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen, National Archaeological Museum Athens, Archaeological Museum Istanbul, Fine Arts Museums San Francisco, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, University Museums of Harvard, Oxford, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Tübingen and others). Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann heads the team that creates the reconstruction projects for polychromy research.

Together with Anna Biering, she manages the publishing house Biering und Brinkmann and the antiquities database project Dyabola.