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Alexandra Herlitz

Senior Lecturer

Aesthetics Unit
Telephone
+46 31-786 27 93
Mail
alexandra.herlitz@kultvet.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
D225
Postal address
Box 200
405 30 Göteborg

About Alexandra Herlitz

Alexandra Herlitz (née Reiff) is an Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg.

She studied Art History, German Studies and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Stuttgart, the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, the University of Hamburg and the University of Gothenburg. Herlitz received her doctoral degree in 2013 with her dissertation Grez-sur-Loing revisited. The international artists' colony in a different light. In October 2024 she was appointed as Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Studies.

Herlitz has also been active as a museum educator at the Gothenburg Museum of Art since 2006.

Fields of interest

  • critical historiography (mainly 19th century in Scandinavia)
  • Scandinavian art and art history of the 17th to 19th century
  • sociology of art
  • artists' colonies and other international artists groups
  • art and national identity
  • art historical relations between the Scandinavian countries and Germany
  • Jewish patrons and collectors in Sweden