Prof. Dr. Iris Lauterbach

Career

Professor Lauterbach studied art history, French and Italian philology at the universities of Mainz, Pavia (Collegio Ghislieri) and Paris (Paris IV). Her dissertation (1985) dealt with French gardens in the second half of the 18th century. She has widely published on European garden history from the 16th to 20th century, on architecture and urban planning under National Socialism, and on the history of the Central Collecting Point in Munich.

Professor Lauterbach is a member of the following organisations: the Working Group on Historic Gardens of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL) (since 1986), the Association of German Art Historians (since 1986), the Working Group on Orangeries in Germany (since 1998), the Comité européen d’action scientifique of the Institut Européen des Jardins et Paysages, Caen (since 2013) and ICOMOS (since 2020).

Functions

• Member of the research department of the Central Institute of Art History (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), Munich (1991-2025)
• Postgraduate fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (Max Planck Institute) (1989-1991)
• Assistant teacher at the Institute of Christian Archaeology, Freiburg University (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität) (1987-1989)
• Assistant curator at the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin) (1986-1987)