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Barbara Wittmann
Barbara Wittmann is an Austrian art historian.

Work
Barbara Wittmann is focusing mainly on the theory and practice of (scientific) drawing, on the epistemic history of children’s drawings and on 19th-century art.

She studied Art History in Vienna and Berlin and earned her PhD in 1999 at the Freie Universität Berlin (with a thesis on Edouard Manet’s portraiture). Between 1999 and 2003 she worked as a research scholar at the University of Trier. In spring 2003 she was a visiting lecturer at the Technical University of Istanbul (ITÜ), and between fall 2003 and winter 2005 a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In winter/spring 2006 she spent a term as postdoctoral research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Italy (Max Planck Institute). During that time, she initiated and authored a research proposal for the inter-institutional research group »Knowledge in the Making. Drawing and Writing as Research Techniques« together with Christoph Hoffmann and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

Between September 2006 and June 2010 she held a research position in the context of this project at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Selected Publications
Gesichter geben. Édouard Manet und die Poetik des Portraits, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004.