Studied art history at the University of Mainz and is a graduate of a trainee programme at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. She is an expert on 20th-century painting and the Nazis’ art policies. She has published a great number of articles and books on Hitler’s art collections, the “Führermuseum” Hitler had envisaged for Linz, the dictator as a self-styled artistic genius, his policy of looting art, his museum policy, and on Hitler’s right-hand man for art matters, Hans Posse. She is involved in the edition of Hans Posse’s travel diaries prepared by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg (editionhansposse.gnm.de).
Hitler's cultural policy, art trade and storage in the Salzkammergut during the Nazi era
Three different art exhibitions of a special kind at three locations: During the Second World War, Hitler and the most important Austrian museums and art dealers used the Salzkammergut to bring masterpieces of European art history to safety or to protect museum collections from destruction.
(Original title: Die Reise der Bilder)
