Deborah Schultz
Deborah Schultz
Deborah Schultz is an art historian and has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies since February 1999. She is currently employed on the project 'Politics and Pictorial Narrative', funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on which she is working with Edward Timms and Peter Weber. Her primary areas of research on this project relate to memory, word-image relations and Romanian art of the post-war period 1944-58. The primary artists investigated in the project are Arnold Daghani, Charlotte Salomon and Felix Nussbaum.
Deborah Schultz has been responsible for cataloguing and research work on the Arnold Daghani Collection, funded by the Ian Karten Trust. She is also a member of the Centre's Management Committee. In 1999 Deborah organised Visual Witness. Arnold Daghani Exhibitions at the University of Sussex, in which selected works by Daghani were displayed in the University Library and the Gardner Arts Centre. In the Centre's related Research Colloquium Imagining the Incomprehensible: Artistic Responses to the Holocaust, she gave a paper on 'Arnold Daghani: Documentation and Commemoration'. In 2000 she organised a second exhibition, Playback. Commemorative Works by Arnold Daghani, as part of the official cultural programme at the international conference Remembering For The Future 2000, Keble College, Oxford. In 2002 she chaired a seminar as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day events at the University of Sussex on 'The Role of Photography: Recovery of Memory, Resistance to Forgetting' with speakers Simon Norfolk, Ori Gersht and Julia Winckler.
Deborah has recently given papers on her research at the University of Sussex at conferences in Warsaw; Liverpool; Cambridge, MA; London; Falmer; Iasi; and Turku. She participated in workshops on Europe's Rediscovered Wealth - What the Accession Candidates in Eastern and Central Europe Have to Offer at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Vienna, 2001-2002. Forthcoming presentations will be given at Everyday Socialism, The Open University, April 2003 (Paper: 'The Private Sphere in Private and Public Artistic Identity in Post-war Romania') and 'Dislocution' at Articulations, Association of Art Historians, London, April 2003 (Paper: 'Suppression and Amplification of Speech in Works by Artists Displaced during the Nazi Period').
Recent and forthcoming publications relating to Deborah's research at Sussex include 'Private and Public Artistic Identity in Socialist Realist Romania: Arnold Daghani in Context', Centropa, May 2003; 'Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory: The Work of Arnold Daghani', in Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement, Peter Wagstaff and Wendy Everett (eds.), Oxford, Berghahn, spring 2003; 'Religion and Identity in the Work of Arnold Daghani', in Art-Ritual-Religion, Warsaw, Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2003; 'Arnold Daghani: Der Künstler als Zeitzeuge', in Lasst mich leben! Stationen im Leben des Künstlers Arnold Daghani, Felix Rieper and Mollie Brandl-Bowen (eds.), Lüneburg, Zu Klampen, 2002; 'Displacement and Identity: Arnold Daghani in Socialist Realist Romania', www.artmargins.com, 2002.
Deborah's first degree was in Fine Art (Sculpture) at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, 1988, followed by a postgraduate scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland, 1988-90. She completed her doctorate in the History of Art at the University of Oxford, 1998. She has published on Conceptual and contemporary art, and is a regular contributor to Art Monthly. She is currently a part-time lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Sussex where she is teaching a final year course on 'Art of the Later 20th century in Europe and America', and a second year course on 'Art in Europe and the USA from Surrealism to Conceptual Art'.
Contact: d.schultz@sussex.ac.uk