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
Articles in edited volumes
Herrschaftliche Repräsentation und sakrale Architektur – die Dorotheenkirche in Breslau (Stately Representation and Sacred Architecture – the Dorotheenkirche in Breslau), in: Martin Bauch/Julia Burkhardt/Tomáš Gaudek/Paul Töbelmann/Václav Žůrek (eds.): Intertwined Styles of Rule in the Long Century of the Luxembourgs, Cologne/Vienna 2017 (Research on the History of the Emperors and Popes of the Middle Ages. Supplements to J. F. Böhmer, Regesta Imperii), pp. 343-360.
Rulers and the Educated. The Canons of the Collegiate Foundation of the Holy Cross in Breslau and Their Relations with the Secular Lords, in: Robert Šimůnek/Uwe Tresp (eds.): Paths to Education: Education and Knowledge Transfer in Central Europe in the 13th-16th Centuries, Göttingen 2016, pp. 107-130.
Seigneurial Representation and Sacred Architecture in Breslau during the Reigns of John of Luxembourg and Charles IV, in: Eva Schlotheuber/Hubertus Seibert (eds.): Social Bonds and Social Structures in the Late Middle Ages (14th–16th Centuries), Göttingen 2013, pp. 281–302.
