Dr Sabine Wieber
- Senior Lecturer (History of Art)
telephone:
01413305626
email:
Sabine.Wieber@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 202, History of Art, 8 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
Research interests
Office Hour: Email for appointment
Research Interests
- Austrian and German Art, Architecture and Design (1800-1918)
- The Domestic Interior and Built Environment
- Gender Politics and Identity
- Dress and Textile Histories
- Medical History
- Material Culture Studies
- Nationalism
- History of Exhibitions and Collecting
- Animal Studies
Publications
Selected publications
Wieber, S. (2020) "Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur": Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-1925. In: Amos, J. and Lisa, B. (eds.) Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9781350070387
Wieber, S. (2020) Designs on modernity: Getrud Loew's Vienna apartment and situated agency. In: Potvin, J. and Marchand, M.-È. (eds.) Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 33-48. ISBN 9781350063792
Wieber, S. (2018) German art academies and their impact on artistic style. In: Facos, M. (ed.) A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 103-121. ISBN 9781118856352
Wieber, S. (2018) Die Ehefrauen der Malerfürsten und ihre Rolle in der Gesellschaft. In: Malerfürsten. Hirmer Verlag: Munich, pp. 91-97. ISBN 9783777431383
Wieber, S. (2017) Martha Vogeler and the Worpswede Artists' Colony, 1894-1905. In: Münch, B. U., Tacke, A., Herzog, M. and Heudecker, S. (eds.) Künstlerinnen: Neue Perspektiven auf ein Forschungsfeld der Vormoderne. Series: Kunsthistorisches Forum Irsee (4). Michael Imhof Verlag: Petersberg, pp. 199-210. ISBN 9783731905202
Wieber, S. (2015) The warp & the weft: tradition and innovation in Skaerbaek tapestries, 1896-1903. Journal of Design History, 28(4), pp. 331-347. (doi: 10.1093/jdh/epv014)
Wieber, S. (2013) A beautiful corpse: Vienna's fascination with death. In: Blackshaw, G. (ed.) Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, pp. 173-203. ISBN 9781857095616
Wieber, S. (2012) Vienna’s most fashionable neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero. In: Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (eds.) Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Berghahn: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9780857454584
Wieber, S. (2011) Sculpting the sanatorium: nervous bodies and femmes fragiles in Vienna 1900. Women in German Yearbook, 27, pp. 58-86. (doi: 10.1353/wgy.2011.0008)
Topp, L. and Wieber, S. (2009) Architecture, psychiatry, and Lebensreform at an agricultural colony of the insane — Lower Austria, 1903. Central Europe, 7(2), pp. 125-149. (doi: 10.1179/147909609X12490448453885)
Wieber, S. (2009) The allure of nerves: class, gender and neurasthenia in Gustav Klimt's society portraits. In: Blackshaw, G. and Topp, L. (eds.) Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900. Lund Humphries: Farnham, UK, pp. 118-135. ISBN 9781848220201
Wieber, S. (2009) The German Interior at the Turn of the Last Century. In: Sparke, P., Massey, A., Keeble, T. and Martin, B. (eds.) Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today. Berg: Oxford, pp. 53-64. ISBN 978-1847882875
Wieber, S. (2007) Eduard Grützner's Munich villa and the German Renaissance. Intellectual History Review, 17(2), pp. 153-174. (doi: 10.1080/17496970701383654)
Wieber, S. (2006) Staging the past: Allotria's 'Festzug Karl V' and German national identity. Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 10(4), pp. 523-551. (doi: 10.1080/13642520600649465)
All publications
Supervision
I am accepting PhD Supervision in any of my areas of research, and welcome proposals for Collaborative Doctoral Awards from organisational partners in the Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum (GLAM) sector.
Graduated
Sara Oberg Stradal: Medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts
Rosemary Spooner: International Exhibition and Material Culture of British Empire, 1880-1940 (AHRC funded)
Sherezade Rangel: Creative Writing: Novel - The Wounded Me (AHRC funded)
Jonathan Cleaver: Templeton Carpet Factory, Technologies and Designs 1890-1939 (AHRC funded)
Karen Mailley-Watt: Glasgow Society of Ladies, 1882-1942 (AHRC funded)
Bianca Scotti: Oriental Rugs in Golden Age America
Anna Kankaanpää: Arts & Crafts Lighting Design
Lucie Whitmore: Women, Conflict and Culture of Fashion 1914-1918 (AHRC funded)
Klaudia Szalay: Naturalism and National Identity, Nagybány Artists' Colony
In Progress
Jana Jankuliakova: German Expressionism and War Trauma (AHRC funded)
Rachel Millar: Representations of Women's War Work during WWI (AHRC funded)
Eamonn Conner: Ocean Liners (LKAS scholarship)
- Millar, Rachel
A study of the representation of women’s war work during the First World War and its aftermath in visual culture - Odubanjo, Pelumi
Fragmenting the Archive- Encounters, Memory and Futurity
Teaching
Undergraduate
- I teach across a range of topics at Levels 1 and 2
- Methodology of Art History (Junior Honours)
- Portfolio Core Course (Junior Honours)
- European Symbolism (Junior Honours)
- German Art (Junior Honours)
- The Dawn of Modernism (Senior Honours)
- Genders (SCCA course)
Postgraduate
- Victorian Visions (MLitt)
- Applying Dress and Textile Histories (MLitt)
- Research Methods and Skills (Mlitt)
- Cultures of Collecting (MLitt)
- Testimonies of Painters' Practice (MLitt)
- Material Cultures (MLitt / MPhil)
- Dissertation (MA and MLitt)
Additional information
Administration
Current:
- Level 2 Convenor
- Exam Convenor
- Co-Convenor, MLitt Dress and Textile Histories
- SCCA PGT Convenor
Past:
- Student Staff Liasons Convenor
- History of Art Learning & Teaching Convenor
- SCCA Quality Assurance Officer
- Research Seminars Convenor
External Responsibilities
- External Examiner, University of Leeds (2019-present)
- External Examiner, University of London, Birkbeck College (2014-2016)
- External Examiner, School of Art History, St Andrews University (2013-2015)
- External Examiner, MA in History of Design, RCA/V&A (2010-2013)
- Trustee, Association of Art Historians (Chair of Further & Higher Education) (2010-2013)
- Chair, Scottish Society for Art History
- Council Member, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society (2011-2013)
- Associate Editor, 'Interiors' (Berg)
- Honorary Curator, Glasgow Life
- Executive Committee Member, Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow
- Executive Committee Member, Gender History Research Centre, University of Glasgow
- Instructor, Cape Town University Summer School
Selected Conference Papers
- Intimate Collaborations at the Photo-Studio Elvira, Birkbeck Arts Week, London, May 2017
- Martha and Heinrich Vogeler at the Worpswede Artists' Colony, UAAC, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 2014
- Vienna 1900: A European Metropolis, Keynote Lecture, University of Hull, 2013
- Gustav Klimt's Little Red Sketchbook, 1897-1903, 'Object Lives', Wolfson College, Oxford, September 2013
- Death Masks and the Lure of Interdisciplinarity, 'Social Sciences and Humanities Congress, Victoria, British Columbia, June 2013
- From Shambles to Abattoirs: Representing Meat in Art and Architecture, 1850-1930, University of Plymouth, May 2013
- Gendered Practices of Everyday Life in Central European Asylums ca. 1900, 'Madness and Revolt', Keynote at AAH Student Conference, Edinburgh, November 2011
- ‘The Old National Gallery in Berlin, 1876-2010,’ Public Histories: Past & Present, Centre for History and Theory, Roehampton University, London, February 2009
- Chair and Organiser of ‘Far From Silent Partners: Extra-Artistic Dialogues in Central European Avant-Gardes around 1900,’ Europa! Europa?’ European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Ghent University, 29-31 May 2008
- ‘The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging' (with Leslie Topp), Psychiatrische - und ähnliche - Institutionen um 1900. Konzepte, Realisierungen, Praxis, The Institute for the History of Medicine, Vienna, October 2007
- ‘The Viennese Femme Fragile,’ Public Lecture, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth, October 2007‘The Role of Sculpture in Viennese Modernism,’ Public Lecture, Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, January 2007
- ‘Kunstgeschichte und das musikalische Gesamtkunstwerk,’ Konzert und Konkurrenz: Die Künste und ihre Wissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, May 2006
- ‘Modern German Interiors: Conflicting Positions in Fin-de-Siècle Munich,’ The Centre for the Study of the Design of the Modern Interior, 7th Dorich House Annual Conference, Kingston, May 2005
- ‘Historicity, Authenticity and German National Identity,’ College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 2004
Exhibitions
- Co-Curator, ‘Madness and Modernity: Kunst und Geisteskrankheit in Wien um 1900,’ Wien Museum, Vienna, 16 February – 31 May 2010
- Co-Curator, ‘Confronting Identities in German Art,’ The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 30 October 2003-5 January 2004
Interviews
- Who Do You Think You Are, Ruby Wax, BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097mdh4
- Interview with Sean Graham from Active History, Canada: available online
- Research in Focus Interview, University of Glasgow: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/infocus/researchers/headline_281466_en.html