curriculum vitae
Brigit Blass-Simmen
(Foto © Saskia Uppenkamp)
e-mail: bbs@blass-simmen.de
Citizenship: Swiss. Born in Zurich (Switzerland), living in Berlin (Germany)
Academic Degrees
1991 Dr. Phil. Art History – University of Zurich, Switzerland – Title: Sankt Georg: Drachenkampf in der Renaissance: Carpaccio – Raffael – Leonardo. Dissertation Supervisor Prof. Dr. Rudolf Preimesberger.
1984 Lic.phil. Art History, French Literature – University of Geneva and Zurich.
Area of Research
Italian Quattro- and Cinquecento visual representationsCurrent Research and Writing Projects
Vittore Carpaccio, Andrea Mantegna und Giovanni Bellini
The Council of Ferrara/Florence 1438/39, The Greek in Italy and Visual Representations
Matteo de’ Pasti as Book Illuminator
Related Academic Work
2001-2019 – Co-founder and director, of the interdisciplinary lecture series „Christian Thematic in Paintings“ in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie and Bodemuseum.
1992-1996 Curator of the „Corpus of Italian Drawings 1300-1450“, founded by Bernhard Degenhart und Annegrit Schmitt, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München.
https://www.khi.fi.it
1989-1992 Assistant Curator at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Gemäldegalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett (Dept. of Prints and Drawings).
1983-1985 Assistant to the Editor, Swiss Institute of Art Research SIK-ISEA, Zurich.
Other Personal Information
1996 Birth of daughter Anna
1988 Marriage to Dr. Jeannot Simmen of Zürich
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Pisanello, Cecilia Gonzaga, Medal, 1447.
Member of the board
2011 (ongoing)
Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein KFMV
• co-chairman •
www.kaiser-friedrich-museumsverein.de
art historian and acquisition commission
Board of advisers
2012 (ongoing)
Stiftung Sammlung Dieter Scharf zur Erinnerung an Otto Gerstenberg
Sachverständigenausschuss für Kulturgut (Berlin)
2005 (ongoing)
Club Bel Etage
www.club-bel-etage.de
1999-2001
Waldorf-Kindergarten,
Berlin-Mansfelderstraße
Membership
ICOM Deutschland
The Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin
Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein, Berlin
Lecture
2012/13 FU-Berlin
Venezianische und Florentiner Malerei der frühen Neuzeit, Übungen vor Originalen, Freie Universität Berlin (mit Ulrike Müller-Hofstede)