Biographical Summary
Born in Havířov (Czech Republic), studied art history at Charles University in Prague, doctorate at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau. 2004-2008 Bachelor's degree in Christian Art History at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague and between 2005-2010 Master's degree in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, followed by a PhD in Art History at the same institution between 2010-2014. From 2015 to August 2022, PhD on “The Holy Cross Church in Wrocław. Architectural monographic study of the two-story hall church by Heinrich Probus (1288–c. 1500)” at the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.
During her studies and doctoral studies, she completed research stays at the universities of Vienna, Wrocław, Freiburg, and at the German Historical Institute Warsaw.
From July 2021 to September 2022, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Architectural History, Institute of Art History, Philipps University of Marburg. Since October 2022, she is working as a researcher at the German Historical Institute Warsaw.
Current GHI Research Project
- Gothic sacred architecture in Central Europe
- The stately representation of the Luxembourgs in the countries of the so-called Bohemian Crown
- 14th-century art in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia
- Historiography of art history (mainly nationalistic tendencies in art history)
Current research project: Representation strategies of the elites in the duchies of the Upper Oder region between the second half of the 15th and the first half of the 17th century
Publications
Monographs
Die Heilige Kreuzkirche in Breslau: Baumonografische Untersuchung der zweigeschossigen Hallenkirche von Heinrich Probus (1288 – um 1500). Quellen und Studien 45. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025.
Chapters in edited volumes
Herrschaftliche Repräsentation und sakrale Architektur – die Dorotheenkirche in Breslau. In Martin Bauch, Julia Burkhardt, Tomáš Gaudek, Paul Töbelmann, and Václav Žůrek, eds., Verflochtene Herrschaftsstile im langen Jahrhundert der Luxemburger, 343–360. Forschungen zur Kaiser- und Papstgeschichte des Mittelalters. Beihefte zu J. F. Böhmer, Regesta Imperii. Köln, Wien: Böhlau, 2017.
Herrscher und Gebildete. Die Kanoniker des Kollegiatstifts zum Heiligen Kreuz in Breslau und ihre Beziehungen zu den weltlichen Herren. In Robert Šimůnek and Uwe Tresp, eds., Wege zur Bildung. Erziehung und Wissensvermittlung in Mitteleuropa im 13.–16. Jahrhundert, 107–130. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016.
Herrschaftliche Repräsentation und sakrale Architektur in Breslau während der Regierungen Johanns von Luxemburg und Karls IV. In Eva Schlotheuber and Hubertus Seibert, eds., Soziale Bindungen und gesellschaftliche Strukturen im späten Mittelalter (14.–16. Jahrhundert), 281–302. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
