Linda Olenburg

Linda Olenburg
Eva Schler Fellow, 2018-2019

Linda Olenburg received her MA degree in History of Art in a global context with a focus on America and Europe at the Free University in Berlin with a thesis on the mathematical and scientific instruments in the collection of Ferdinando I. de’ Medici and the iconography of the „Stanze delle matematiche“ in the Uffizi Gallery. Before that she received her BA degree in European Art History and Pedagogy at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on Rosalba Carriera and her artistic friendships in Paris (1715–1721). Since April 2015 she is a PhD student at the Free University in Berlin with a project on „Le Bellezze di Artimino“. Based on this female portrait series, her research focuses on the role of women in Florence around 1600 and the social networks of the Florentine families, especially the court ladies of Christine de Lorraine. She has been working as a graduate assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck-Institut in the Department of Prof. Dr. Alessandro Nova from 2015–2018.