Elena Rieger
Elena Rieger
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-ARCH
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Elena Rieger is an Art Historian and PhD research fellow at the Group Hultzsch (gta-ETH) in the project 'Women Writing Architecture: Female Experiences of the Built 1700-1900' (WoWA). Her PhD research focuses on women as recipients, critics and theorists of the built environment based on their personal experiences in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Elena studied Art History and Archaeological Sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Università degli Studi di Udine and at the Technische Universität Dresden. In 2017, she completed her Master's degree in Art History with a thesis on the Austrian architect Josef Frank and his theoretical writings on architecture and interior design in the discourse of the Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart in 1927. After her studies, she worked as a coordinator and curatorial assistant at the Archiv der Avantgarden and the Albertinum, two museums of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. In addition, she worked as a curator at the Stephanie Kelly Gallery in Dresden.