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About me

I am an Art Historian based near Hamburg, Germany. To date, my research has focused primarily on the impact of war on visual culture since 1800 and German art from 1850 to 1945. My central concern is how art produced during times of conflict/post-conflict engages with the sociopolitical and artistic conditions in which it is created, how it is perceived and examined, and how consequent primary and secondary research on such art is affected by changing socio-political perspectives.

My first monograph, Otto Dix and the Memorialisation of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023), supported by a Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grant, analyses the role of Dix’s war pictures in the broader context of war memorialisation in Germany, and closely considers contemporary critical reception as redolent of social and political conditions as well as attitudes to the lost war.

I contribute regularly to the academic community through editorial work for the journal Open Cultural Studies (De Gruyter), peer review, and presentation of my research findings through scholarly conferences and publications.

Beyond academia, I am also a professionally-qualified art teacher. Having taught in Ireland, and Spain, I currently teach art at Leibniz Privateschule, Kaltenkirchen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I consider my engagement with young people’s artistic awareness and development to be an important extension of my work as an art historian, and my students receive an art education with a strong awareness of art-historical and cultural contexts in relation to the development of their project work and approach to materials.

Ongoing research (as at August 2026)

• the graphic work created by Willy Jaeckel (b. Poland, 1888-1944) in response to the First World War
• the art of Gert Wollheim (b. Germany, 1894-1974) in response to his experience of World War I and World War II
• a study of a selection of recent work by contemporary British artist Richard Meaghan in which I treat how his personal experience of illness reflects the artist’s personal responses to the portrayal of masculinity in post-World War I art.

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7394-3091

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