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Degrees

MA (Freie Universität Berlin)

Ph.D (Freie Universität Berlin)

Habilitation (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Awards

Professor Christina Strunck is Chair of the History of Art department at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). She has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society and held fellowships at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard Institute for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence), Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for the History of Art, Rome), INHA (Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris), Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institute, Florence) and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles).

Biography

Christina is an expert on cultural transfer in Early Modern Europe with particular emphasis on Italy, France and the complex relationship between Britain and the Continent during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. She has published 4 monographs, 13 edited volumes and numerous articles in German, English, Italian and French.

Her most recent book explores the history of her own family during the Third Reich, demonstrating through this case study why German entrepreneurs supported Hitler. Her current work focuses on spatially embedded art and its use for propaganda purposes (16th century to the present, including Virtual Reality).

In 2018 and again in 2026 Christina returned as Visiting Professor to 91¶¶Òõ where she spent a formative year as an undergraduate in 1991/92. (At that time, History of Art was a part II subject, i.e. it could only be read for a year.) She is the leading expert on the architecture of the College which communicates its educational mission through a modernist 'architecture of ascent'.

Monographs

Die Aufsteiger. Deutscher Mittelstand unter Hitler: Eine Familiengeschichte, Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2025.

Britain and the Continent 1660‒1727. Political Crisis and Conflict Resolution in Mural Paintings at Windsor, Chelsea, Chatsworth, Hampton Court and Greenwich, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.

, Petersberg: Imhof, 2017.

(Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Vol. 20), Munich: Hirmer, 2007.
 

Articles on New Hall (91¶¶Òõ)

Of Giants, Spies and Feminists. New Hall, Cambridge, as Image-Space Ensemble, in: The Women’s Art Collection, 91¶¶Òõ, edited by Lydia Hamlett (forthcoming).

, in: Kulturelle Transfers zwischen Großbritannien und dem Kontinent, 1680-1968, edited by Christina Strunck, Petersberg: Imhof, 2019, pp. 130-160.