Studied art, art history and theatre studies at the University of Wisconsin and at Beloit College, WI: Bachelor of Arts. Adjunct: Set designer for the Summer Theatre, Beloit College. Studied art history and philology in Würzburg (Germany). (Master's thesis "The 'Suite Vollard' by Pablo Picasso", 1977) In addition: Worked in an auction house for antiques.
After completing her master's degree, she worked as head of the bibliophilia and graphics department in an antiquarian bookshop and as a research assistant at the Emschertal Museum.
1986 Doctorate (dissertation "Studies on Richard Hamilton: The Early Work", Ruhr University Bochum). - Subsequently worked in monument conservation and in the editing of an art literature database, as well as lecturing on 20th century art at various universities.
1990-2014 research assistant at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, head of the archive with collections, including setting up a database and supervising research projects.
2001 Habilitation at the University of Oldenburg ("Artists, Artworks, and Intellectual Property in an Electronic Environment").
2001-2014 Privatdozentin in the Department of Art History/Art Studies at the University of Oldenburg.
Miami Marine Stadium: two or three lives; a balancing act between graffiti art and building fabric. Restauro. (2016, 1), S. 40-45.
The Academy Art Collection. In: The Düsseldorf Art Academy Making History since 1945. ed. Dusseldorf Art Academy. Berlin. (2015), S. 416-426.
The Academy Art Collection. In: The History of the Düsseldorf Art Academy since 1945. ed. Düsseldorf Art Academy. Berlin. (2014), S. 416-426.
Embraced by the world: Embrace of a cultural nomad. In: WeltBilder - Art and Globalisation. Edited by Kunibert Bering and Robert Fleck. Oberhausen. (2013), S. 29-38.
The Düsseldorf Academy around 1780. In: The painter Friedrich Bury (1763-1823): Goethe's "second Fritz". Edited by the Museums of the City of Hanau and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Berlin. (2013), S. 45-40.
Traces of time in Nam June Paik's closed-circuit videos. In: Time Structures: Techniques of Visualisation in Science and Art. Edited by Johannes Myssok and Ludger Schwarte. Berlin. (2013), S. 73-89.
The Graphics Collection in the Archive of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf: Function and Change. In: Das Heute hat Geschichte: Forschungen zur Geschichte Düsseldorfs, des Rheinlands und darüber hinaus; Festschrift für Clemens von Looz-Corswarem zum 65. Geburtstag. Edited by Benedikt Mauer and Clemens von Looz-Corswarem. Essen. (2012), S. 319-346.
History in pictures of children. In: BildGeschichte: Facets of visual literacy. Edited by Kunibert Bering and Stefan Hölscher. Oberhausen (2012), pp. 63-72.
The Hand of the Artist: Works by Nan Hoover. Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, vol. 71 (2010), pp. 285-300.
Differentiation and Continuity in the Training of Artists at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In: Between German Art and International Modernity. Edited by Wolfgang Ruppert and Christian Fuhrmeister. Berlin. (2007), S. 147-167.
Image-Problem? - Performance and Media Art within the current picture/image-discussion. Ed. with Slavko Kacunko. Berlin. (2006), S. 19-34.
