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Completed doctoral theses in the Departments of Art History and Musicology since 2020.

2022

• Martina BRATIĆ: Is there female music? On feminist musicology, its subject and research perspectives. (Michael Walter.)
• Monika LAFER: Arthur Kurtz 1860-1917 and Augustin Kurtz-Gallenstein 1856-1916. Two artists in the field of tension between tradition and awakening. (Margit Stadlober)
• Nicole KADDOURA: Elisabeth-Charlotte Martiny (1929 - 2017). Life and work of the cosmopolitan artist from the Holzhausen dynasty. (Margit Stadlober)

2021

• Laura BIEDERMANN-DIETHARDT: Si Dieu le veut, tu le peux ¿ The animal painter Rosa Bonheur. (1822- 1899) (Andrea Worm)
• Karin HOFER: Threshold experience and performative turn in everyday life using the example of Michelangelo Pistoletto's Terzo Paradiso. (Arnulf Rohsmann)
• Christina PICHLER: The baroque sculptor Philipp Jakob Straub (1706-1774) and his artistic work with a view over the Alps. A work analysis with special consideration of the northern Italian influence on transalpine sculpture of the late Baroque. (Margit Stadlober)
• Johann RESCH: Saints in ecstasy on panel paintings from the 14th to the 18th century. (Margit Stadlober)
• Monika VOITHOFER: Conceptual Music in the 20th and 21st Century: A study on genealogy, materiality, form and semantics. (Susanne Kogler)

2020

• Paul SCHUSTER: Eggenberg Palace. A Study of Architecture, Construction and Functional History 1470-1717 (Herbert Karner)
• Elke STUPNIK: RUT - A Strong Woman in the Old Testament. Main Motifs and Representational Accents in Jewish and Christian Art. (Margit Stadlober)
• Alena VOLK: Italian Earthenware in Graz. The Majolica Collection of the Universalmuseum Joanneum. (Andrea Worm)

Complete overview of all doctoral theses of the Department of Art and Musicology after 2010.

The following topics are currently being worked on in doctoral theses at the Department of Arts and Musicology

Section of Arts

• Principles of prison architecture in German-speaking countries
• Luxury Cells. The spa hotel as a cinematic topos in European auteur cinema
• Art and war and the politics of remembrance in public space. On the concept of the memorial in the work of Milica Tomic
• The Influence of St. Lambrecht Abbey on the Artistic Design of Several Churches in its Vicinity
• The Hospital Church in Bad Aussee
• The Politics of Post-Yugoslav Art and Europeanization Process
• The Angel & The Machine
• Outreach. A Study on "Mobility Orientation" in Cultural Education in the Museum Context
• queer bodies creating queer universes. Queer body-object-space relations in contemporary positions of trans*, genderqueer and non-binary artists.
• Demolition - Vanished Buildings of Postwar Modernism in Austria
• Josef Papst (1923-2010). Monograph and catalogue raisonné
• The disappearance of the original in contemporary art and the role of art history.
• Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Border crossings between human and algorithmically generated art.
• Image and cult of St. Elizabeth in the late Middle Ages. Programs - Actors - Addressees
• MOTION AND FORM. On the relationship between movement, form and event in the sculptural performative works of Alexandra Pirici.
• Devotional paintings of the late Middle Ages and their innovative exceptions - focus on Old German and early Dutch painting
• Judith, Salome, Medea - a feminist investigation
• The importance of craft in art and its pedagogy
• Syntheses of art, science and technology in the concrete utopias of Tomás Saraceno
• Abstract wall designs from 1910-1930
• Austrian photography since 1945. Selected positions in international comparison
• Image text - text image. Writing as a creative means in contemporary art
• Multimodal acts of communication in the publications of conceptual art of the late 1960s
• The epoch of consumption
• The sea as a stage in 19th century painting
• Lace in the painting of modern times
• The plant in contemporary art
• The glass art of the Reiner Kreuzkapelle in a regional and national context
• Southern Italy's Archaic Identity. On the representation of rural life in southern Italy in the mid-20th century in photography and literature
• Nanni Moretti - lo è un altro
• Art and Ritual: Positions of the Present
• Neither Object Nor Space. Space-oriented arts between sculpture and installation
• Genealogy and Hagiography: The Babenberg Family Tree in Klosterneuburg Abbey
• On the art of beHutting and beHaupting - Aspects of headgear in the art-historical context of the 20th and 21st centuries
• "Body images and body concepts in the work of Maria Lassnig".
• This is my reality! A review of the work of the media artist Franz Reimer
• The Heart Is Not a Metaphor. Object-Oriented Philosophy and the Subjective Art Worlds of Robert Gobers
• Plastic Art. The Material Handling of Plastic in Art after 1970
• On the art of gravestones from ca. 1880 to ca. 1920 in Styria
• Planned, realized and lost gardens - contributions to an ideal cultural history of Styria. Survey of the current situation of Styrian gardens from the past and present and their cultural-historical analysis.
• Helga Scholler. 1938-2012. The artistic work
• "Saints in the Holy City. Studies on Roman pictorial programs (10th - 14th century)".
• MOTION EMOTION MEMORY. On the production of sensual and emotional embodiment processes in the sculptural performative works in Sasha Waltz and Ragnar Kjartansson.
• The juxtaposition of two major historical events and their reception in 19th and 20th century Russian painting.
• How Protest and Revolution Shape Fashion. A pictorial analysis of clothing on socio-political upheavals in Europe since the French Revolution.
• The representation of mother and child in modernity
• ...and I will become KÜNSTERLIN after all! Linda Leeb. And the Graz Secession.
• The Styrian Erzberg and the iron processing industry in Eisenerz in film
• Depictions of God in Painting and Graphic Art around 1500 in the Cultural Area North of the Alps. An iconological study in an interdisciplinary context
• The glass art of David Hillman in the synagogues of London
• The ballet in modern art starting from Edgar Degas
• A department store through the ages - synergies of new design and old substance. A review of the feasibility at the house Kastner & Öhler
• Studies on Conrat Meit. Complementary research on the life and work of the artist.
• The Metareferential Turn in Post-1945 Visual Arts
• Studies on the Art of the Aborigines, Maori and South Sea Peoples
• Art in public space and its institutions
• The History of Art History Institute in the Countries of Ex-Yugoslavia
• Albert Schamoni (1906-1945). Life and work
• Baroque altars as a counter-reformation marketing program in Gothic churches
• Depictions of children in German and Austrian art of the 19th century
• The development of the musical portrait in the 19th century
• Gertrud Ring (1897 - 1945). Biographical and art historical treatment
• The architecture of Art Nouveau in Luxembourg: a specific monumental topography of the Grand Duchy
• Software - Art and ArtistsHacker
• Art - Illness - Creativity. Aesthetic border crossings and approach to the creative expression of people with mental and physical deficits.
• The brick architecture of historicism in Austria
• The feminine in the landscape
• "We don't live in the Middle Ages anymore!" - The development of the medieval image after 1789 and its reflections in the visual arts

Section of Musicology

• The sublimated revolution: The connection between socio-political references and the design of sound in the pop music of the 1960s.
• Subject History of Musicology in Graz
• A Study of the Examination of the "Opener" in Children's Series - What Does Music Do to Children and How Do These Series' Title Tunes Influence People in Later Adulthood?
• Patterns of nonverbal emotional expression and its communication
• Teatro Sociale di Udine
• The traces of Adorno in music criticism in Croatia
• Edmund Eysler - A life in times of upheaval

The authors of the above mentioned papers as well as further topics can be researched via

• arttheses
• German doctoral theses database
• Austrian doctoral theses database