Dr Sabine Wieber
- Lecturer in History of Art, Architecture & Design (History of Art)
Research interests
Office Hour: Email for appointment
Research Interests
- Austrian and German Art, Architecture and Design (1800-1918)
- The Domestic Interior
- Gender Politics and Identity
- Medical History
- Material Culture Studies
- Nationalism
- History of Exhibitions and Collecting
- Art Nouveau Textiles
- Animal Studies
Selected publications
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)
Supervision
Accepting PhD Supervision in any of my areas of research.
Graduated
Sara Oberg Stradal: Medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts (Graduated)
Sherezade Rangel: Creative Writing (Graduated)
- Cleaver, Jonathan
Technical innovation and the development of carpet design in the Stoddard Templeton archives. - Mailley-Watt, Karen
Glasgow Girls Revisited: Designing, Making and Exhibiting Women's Industrial Design of the Gilded Age - Whitmore, Lucie
Women's fashion in the First World War
Teaching
- Modernism (Level 1)
- Sites of Modern Art (Level 2)
- Methodology of Art History (Junior Honours)
- Portfolio Core Course (Junior Honours)
- European Symbolism (Junior Honours)
- The Dawn of Modernism (Senior Honours)
- Art History: International Art Nouveau (MLitt programme)
- Reading International Art Nouveau (MLitt)
- Research Methods in Practice (Mlitt)
- Cultures of Collecting (MLitt)
- Testimonies of Painters' Practice (MLitt)
- Making Dress and Textile Histories (MLitt)
- Material Cultures (MLitt / MPhil)
- Dissertation (MA and MLitt)
Additional Information
Administration
- Staff-Student Liaison
- Level 2 Convenor
- Junior Honours Portfolio
- Exam Convenor
- Co-Convenor, MLitt Art History: Art History: International Art Nouveau
- History of Art Learning & Teaching Convenor
External Responsibilities
- 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
Selected Conference Papers
- Martha and Heinrich Vogeler at the Worpswede Artists' Colony, UAAC, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 2014
- 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
- 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