christina.wais(at)oeaw.ac.at
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Christina Wais is a research associate in the research unit Art History and heads the project Corpus Vitrearum – Stained Glass Research in Austria from the Middle Ages to the Present Day.
Christina Wais is an Art historian specialising in Austrian stained glass from the Middle Ages to the present. She has led the long-term Corpus Vitrearum project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IHB) since June 2022. Since 2002, she has participated in international Corpus Vitrearum research and advised on restorations. She co-authored multiple volumes on stained glass in Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg (Böhlau-Verlag 2007), Lower Austria (Böhlau-Verlag 2015 and 2017) and Styria (StudienVerlag 2024). From 2015 to 2020, she led the project Corpus Vitrearum – Medieval & Modern Stained Glass in Austria as part of the New Frontiers Research Groups Programme at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2020, she headed the project Art Production in the Age of Early Globalisation: The activity of the Tyrolean stained glass workshop in Vienna around 1900, also based at the Academy. This was followed in 2021 by her leadership of the project Die transatlantischen Beziehungen der Tiroler Glasmalereianstalt von 1871 bis 1918. Ausgeführt am Beispiel des nordamerikanischen Marktes mit Schwerpunkt New York conducted at the University of Innsbruck (Institute for Art History). She is member of the Austrian National Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum.
Period: Middle Ages to the twentieth century
Area: Austria and Central Europe
Topics: stained glass, art history, cultural history, the Habsburg Empire
Medieval & Modern Stained Glass in Austria (completed)
Mittelalterliche Glasmalerei (CVMA) (completed)
Ars Vitrearum, Band 1
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi – Österreich, Band V/2
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi – Österreich, Band V/1
