Waltraud Bayer
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Waltraud Bayer, Dr. phil., is researching and teaching at Graz University, Department of History, since 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Research on East and South East Europe from Vienna University in 1991 after having spent an academic year at the Moscow-based Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies (Prof. Tofik Islamov) at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1987/88, and, in 1988/89, in St. Petersburg, Western Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus. From 1991 – 1995 she was Research Assistant to Prof. Harald Heppner, study on bourgeois art patronage in Tsarist Russia, 1850-1917. 1995 – 2001 she pursued postdoctoral research on art collecting in the USSR (case studies) and on the nationalization and export of formerly private art property, 1917-1938. From 2001 – 2004 she held the Hertha-Firnberg-Position at Graz University with the project: The Unofficial Art Market in the USSR, 1917-1991. She was awarded with the Research Prize of the City of Vienna in 1998, with The Theodor-Koerner_prize in 1996 and with the Ludwig-Jedlicka-Memorial-Prize for her Ph. D. thesis in 1991. Her books include: Verkaufte Kultur: Die sowjetischen Kunst- und Antiquitätenexporte, 1919-1938. (Ed.) (Peter Lang: Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 2001) (Russia’s Sold National Treasure. Soviet Art Exports to the West, 1919-1938); Die Moskauer Medici: Der russische Bürger als Mäzen, 1850-1917 (Boehlau: Wien u. a. 1996) (The Moscow Medici: Art Patronage of the Russian Bourgeoisie, 1850-1917).
