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Ulrike Körber. Completed PhD in History of Art in 2019/07/26 by Universidade de Évora - Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, License in Conservation and Restoration (preceded by two years of internships in conservation workshops) in 2008/09/24 by Fachhochschule Potsdam Fachbereich Architektur und Städtebau and became a Journeyman-cabinetmaker, after a three-year vocational education to a cabinetmaker (as a prerequisite for the university course in Conservation and Restoration) in 2002/08/31 by Industrie- und Handelskammer Potsdam. Is Integrated researcher in Universidade Nova de Lisboa-Instituto de História da Arte (IHA-FCSH) and currently self-employed. Published 5 articles in journals. Has 10 section(s) of books. Participated in 8 event(s). Co-supervised 1 MSc dissertation(s). Participates and/or participated as Invited Scientist Fellow in 1 project(s), Other in 5 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 2 project(s) and Research Technician Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Arts with emphasis on Art history. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Asian lacquer; Portuguese expansion; Luso-Asian art; early modern material culture; Laccol; Lacquer analysis; Toxicodendron succedanea; Chinese lacquer; Xiushi lu; Rhus vernicifera; Rhus succedanea; Melanorrhoea usitate; Indo-Portuguese Furniture; Py-GC/MS; Namban lacquer; cultural transfer; Portuguese presence in Asia; Asian craft traditions; Japanese lacquer; Southeast Asian lacquer; lacquer techniques; conservation & restoration; Japanese materials and techniques; Material identification; material analysis; Indo-Portuguese furniture; Luso-Asian furniture; museum collections; Luso-Asian lacquer; conservation methods; European presence in Asia; cross-cultural transfers; iconography; Iberian presence in Asia; Jesuits mission in Asia; adopted lacquer techniques; Luso-Asian artifacts; material identification; Ryukyuan lacquer; Ryukyu Kingdom; Catholic missions in Asia; Iconography; Jesuit missions in Japan and China; identification of artistic traditions; interregional influences; Renaissance collection; identification of craft traditions; liturgical artifacts; Asian lacquer techniques; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ulrike Körber

Citation names

  • Körber, Ulrike

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
251C-65B1-0FDB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2697-9726

Email addresses

  • ulrikekorber@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 926070239 (Personal)

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/07/26
Concluded
 História da Arte (Doutoramento)
Major in Artistic Studies
Universidade de Évora - Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
"The Journey of Artifacts: The Study and Characterization of a Nucleus of Lacquered Luso-Asian Objects from the 16th and 17th Centuries" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with high distinction
2004/10/01 - 2008/09/24
Concluded
 Conservation and Restoration (preceded by two years of internships) (Master)
Major in Wooden Artifacts and Cultural Heritage Assets
Fachhochschule Potsdam Fachbereich Architektur und Städtebau, Germany
"Ein mit ostasiatischem Lack dekorierter perso-indischer Lederschild im 16. Jahrhundert für einen portugiesischen Adligen lackiert - Technologische Untersuchungen und Entwicklung eines Konservierungskonzeptes " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
1999/09/01 - 2002/08/31
Concluded
 Journeyman-cabinetmaker, three-year vocational education to a cabinetmaker (as a prerequisite for the university course in Conservation and Restoration) (Licence)
Major in Traditional woodworking craft
Industrie- und Handelskammer Potsdam (Câmara de Comércio e Indústria), Germany
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/04/01 - 2019/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora - Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Científica (CHAIA), Portugal
Universidade de Évora - Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artística (CHAIA), Portugal
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Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/04/01 - Current Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes Self-employed, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/01 - Current Associate researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
2018/01/31 - Current Associate Researcher Universidade de Évora - Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artística (CHAIA), Portugal
Universidade de Évora - Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artística (CHAIA), Portugal
2022/11/01 - 2023/02/28 ACM Research Fellowship Grant "Maritime trade/ Asian Export Art/ Luso-Asian objects in the ACM collection" Government of Singapore National Heritage Board, Singapore
National Heritage Board - Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore
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2009/04/01 - 2014/03/31 Research technician fellow José de Figueiredo Laboratory - Directorate General for Cultural Heritage, Portugal
José de Figueiredo Laboratory - Directorate General for Cultural Heritage, Portugal
Projects

Other

Designation Funders
2021 - Current LAC - A circulação de objectos entre as missões católicas da China e do Japão: estudo de três peças lacadas
N/A
Principal investigator
Plataforma Portuguesa da Infraestrutura de Investigação Europeia em Ciências do Património, Portugal
 Plataforma Portuguesa da Infraestrutura de Investigação Europeia em Ciências do Património
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Körber, Ulrike. "Chapter X: The double-headed eagle - A hint to the origin of the Minakuchi rapier, its commissioner or owner?". In Challenging the Mystery of the Legendary Western Sword, Minakuchi Rapier, edited by Kobayashi, Koji, 339-355. Tokyo, Japan: Chuo Koron Bijutsu Publishing, 2023.
    Published
  2. Körber, Ulrike. "India, Japan, or China? The Complex Origins of Chinese Lacquered Luso-Asian Objects in the Scope of the Jesuit Missions in Asia". In Bernardo Ferrão e as Artes Decorativas no Oriente e no Mundo: Estudos de Homenagem, edited by José Augusto de Sottomayor-Pizarro; Ana Cristina Souza, 221-241. Porto, Portugal: Círculo Dr. José de Figueiredo, 2022.
    Published
  3. Ulrike Körber. "India, Japan, or China?". In The Complex Origins of Chinese Lacquered Luso-Asian Objects in the Scope of the Jesuit Missions in Asia, edited by {de Sottomayor-Pizarro, 221-241. C{\'i, 2022.
  4. Körber, Ulrike; Curvelo, Alexandra (3115-6AF2-D95E). "Em busca da laca. Os Europeus e o encontro com as diferentes "lacas" asiáticas na Idade Moderna/ In search of lacquer. Europeans and their acquaintance with Asian "lacquers" in the early modern period". In Histórias de Um Império. Colecção Távora Sequeira Pinto/ Stories of one Empire. Távora Sequeira Pinto Collection [Exhibition catalogue, Museu do Oriente, June 2 2021 - October 2 2022], 225-239. Lisbon, Portugal: Museu do Oriente, 2021.
    Published
  5. Körber, Ulrike. "A Nanban-style Chinese lacquered portable oratory". In The Art of Collecting Lisbon, Europe and the Early Modern World (1500-1800), edited by Crespo, Hugo Miguel, 191-192. Lisboa, Portugal: AR|PAB, 2019.
    Published
  6. Körber, Ulrike. "Lack ist nicht gleich Lack. Untersuchungsergebnisse an Lackfassungen portugiesischasiatischer Objekte des 16. und frühen 17. Jahrhunderts". In Die Kunst der Ebenisten - Quellenstudien, technologische Untersuchungen und innovative Verfahren zur Holzrestaurierung, edited by Weber, Jörg, 126-139. Potsdam, Germany: Verlag der Fachhochschule Potsdam, 2017.
    Published
  7. Körber, Ulrike. "The "Three Brothers": Sixteenth-century Lacquered Indo-Muslim Shields or Commodities for Display?". In Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon, edited by Jordan Gschwend, Annemarie; Lowe, Kate, 212-225. Paul Holberton Publishing, 2015.
    Published
  8. Körber, Ulrike. "A Mughal Wood and Leather Shield: Lacquered in the Ryukyuan Kingdom for a Portuguese Nobleman in the 16th Century?". In Japanese Collections in European Museums III, Regional Studies, edited by Kreiner, Josef, 317-334. Bonn, Germany: Bier'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015.
    Published
  9. Körber, Ulrike. "Reflections on Cultural Exchange and Commercial Relations in Sixteenth-Century Asia: A Portuguese Nobleman's Lacquered Mughal Shield". In Portugal, Jesuits and Japan: Spiritual Beliefs and Earthly Goods, edited by Westen, Victoria; Curvelo, Alexandra (3115-6AF2-D95E), 45-56. Boston, United States: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2013.
    Published
  10. Körber, Ulrike. "South-East Asian Lacquer on the 16th and 17th Century Indian- or Singhalese-Portuguese Furniture". In South-East Asia: Studies in Art, Cultural Heritage and Artistic Relations with Europe, 317-323. Warsaw-Torun, Poland: Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, 2012.
    Published
  11. Körber, Ulrike; Frade, José Carlos. "Lacas asiáticas. Uma encruzilhada entre a Índia e Riukiu [Asian lacquers. A crossroad between India and Ryukyu]". In Viagens - Lacas Namban e de outras paragens [Voyages - Namban lacquers and lacquers from other origins], edited by Henriques, Ana de Castro, 31-44. Lisbon, Portugal: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 2011.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Ulrike Körber; Michael Schilling; Cristina Maria Barrocas Dias. Corresponding author: Ulrike Körber. "Chinese lacquer decorations for Catholic European consumers in the 16th and 17th centuries: Stylistic and technical evolutions". Paper presented in Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation, 2021.
    Published
  2. Körber, Ulrike. "Lacquered Luso-Asian furniture of Indian and Chinese origin closely related with Namban lacquer". Paper presented in In Search of the Multiple Origins of Namban Lacquer, Tokyo, 2017.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Körber, Ulrike; Dias, Cristina Maria Barrocas; Schilling, Michael R.. "Chinese lacquer decorations for Catholic European consumers in the 16th and 17th centuries: Stylistic and technical evolutions". Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation. ICOM-CC 19th Triennial Conference Preprints, Beijing, 17-21 May 2021 (2021):
    Published
  2. Körber, Ulrike; Schilling, Michael R.; Dias, Cristina Barrocas; Dias, Luis. "Simplified Chinese lacquer techniques and Nanban style decoration on Luso-Asian objects from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries". Studies in Conservation 61 sup3 (2016): 68-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2016.1227052.
    Open access • 10.1080/00393630.2016.1227052
  3. Körber, Ulrike. "Reflections on a Portuguese Nobleman's Lacquered Mughal Shield from the collection of the MNSR". Revista MVSEV Amigos do Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis Círculo Dr. José Figueiredo IV 19 (2013): 43-66.
    Published
  4. Körber, Ulrike; Frade, José Carlos; Cavaco, Margarida; Ribeiro, Isabel; Graça, José; Rodrigues, José Carlos. "A Study on 16th and 17th century Luso-Oriental Lacquerware". ICOM Committee for Conservation 16th Triennial Meeting Lisbon Portugal 19-23 September 2011 (2011): 1-9. https://www.icom-cc-publications-online.org/1100/A-Study-on-16th-and-17th-Century-Lusitanian-Oriental-Lacquerware.
    Published
  5. Körber, Ulrike. "Der "Rochenhautschild" der Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer des Kunsthistorischen Museums - Ein Reflex der Portugiesischen Handelskontakte im 16. Jahrhundert, Untersuchungen der Lackfassungen und Vergleiche mit ähnlichen Exemplaren [The "ray-skin shield" of the Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer des Kunsthistorischen Museums - A reflex of 16th century Portuguese commercial relations, investigation of the lacquer ...]". Technologische Studien - Kunsthistorisches Museum - Konservierung, Restaurierung, Forschung, Technologie 8 (2011): 170-189.
    Published
Online resource
  1. Körber, Ulrike. A Unique Jesuit Lectern in Chinese Lacquer, Mingling Christian and Chinese Visual and Spiritual Concepts. 2019. https://jaimeeguiguren.com/usr/library/documents/main/altar-lectern.docx.pdf.
  2. Körber, Ulrike. Cultural encounters manifest in a lacquered shield from the Amsterdam Museum's collection. 2015. https://hart.amsterdam/image/2015/8/12/shield_amsterdam_museum_blog_entry_2015-646884500.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Körber, Ulrike. "The Journey of Artifacts: The study and characterization of a nucleus of lacquered Luso-Asian objects from the 16th and 17th centuries". PhD, Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/25788.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/04/21 Peças Lacadas na Missão Jesuíta na China: Observações e Questões SPRING CONFERENCES 2022: ASIA (20-25.04.2022)
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/03/25 India, Japan, or China? The complex origins of Chinese lacquered Luso-Asian objects in the scope of the Jesuit missions in Asia Bernardo Ferrão e as Artes Decorativas no Oriente e no Mundo [Bernardo Ferrão and the decorative art in the East and in the world]
Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Círculo Dr. José Figueiredo, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, CITCEM/FLUP (Porto, Portugal)
2022/02/13 Between the Japanese and Chinese missions in the 16th and 17th centuries: The Jesuit influence in the dissemination of a newly created nanban style of lacquer decoration Transcultural Exchange: Mapping Movement of Art, Ideas, and People
Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University (Fokuoka, Japan)
2021/05/17 Chinese lacquer decorations for Catholic European consumers in the 16th and 17th centuries: Stylistic and technical evolutions ICOM-CC 19th Triennial Conference Beijing
International Council of Museums (Beijing, China)
2018/11/03 Objectos lacados luso-asiáticos dos séculos XVI e XVII: o contributo do estudo material para a História da Arte [Luso-Asian lacquered objects: the material study's contribution the art history] Laboratório Colaborativo: Dinâmicas urbanas, património, artes. IV - Seminário de investigação, ensino e difusão”
Universidade de Évora (CHAIA), FCSH-Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (IHA), ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (DINÂMIA’CET-IUL), Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Universidade do Algarve (CEAACP) (Olhão, Portugal)
2017/03/05 Lacquered Luso-Asian furniture of Indian or Chinese origins closely related with Namban lacquer International Symposium: In Search of the Multiple Origins of Namban Lacquer
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Porperties (Tokyo, Japan)
2015/04/20 A Viagem dos artefactos: Estudo e caracterização de um núcleo de peças lacadas luso-asiáticas dos séculos XVI e XVIII (Presentation of the objective and methodology of the Ph.D. investigation) III Seminário História, Arte e Diálogos Interculturais: Práticas e Representações?
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2012/12/13 An exceptional production: Portuguese prototypes - Indian manufacture - Asian lacquer coatings Global commodities: The material culture of early modern connections
University of Warwick - Global History and Culture Centre (Coventry, United Kingdom)
2012/06/06 Introduction of the research project: A group of 16th and 17th century Luso-Asian lacquerware, lacquered in the Ryukyu Kingdom? Japanese Buddhist objects in European Collections and their impact on the European image of Japan
HOSEI University Tokyo, University of Zurich, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan (Lochow, Poland)
2012/03/23 Lack ist nicht gleich Lack [Lacquer is not just lacquer] Die Kunst der Ebenisten
University of Applied Science (Potsdam, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2014 - 2017/02/23 Lacas de exportação no contexto luso-asiático e a sua circulação entre a Índia, China e Ilhas Ryukyu
Co-supervisor
 História da Arte (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/02/12 - 2022/02/13 The international online symposium Transcultural Exchanges: Mapping Movement of Art, Ideas, and People in Asia explores through two days of thematic panels (February 12-13, 2022) two historical periods of intense interaction in East Asia. We revisit exchanges of people, ideas, and objects during the First (1550-1700) and Second Global Age (1840-1945) with a focus on cultural transfer and communication through visual and material cultures.
Symposium
 Transcultural Exchange: Mapping Movement of Art, Ideas, and People
Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University, Japan
2021/04/06 - 2021/06/05 CURSO ONLINE em seis sessões | SEIS HISTÓRIAS. PORTUGAL E A CHINA (SÉC. XVI – XVIII)/ ONLINE COURSE in six sessions| SIX STORIES. PORTUGAL AND CHINA (16th – 18th CENTURIES)
Seminar
 SEIS HISTÓRIAS. PORTUGAL E A CHINA (SÉC. XVI – XVIII)/ SIX STORIES. PORTUGAL AND CHINA (16th – 18th CENTURIES)
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Portugal

Fundação Oriente, Portugal
2017/03/04 - 2017/03/05 Participation in the conference "In Search of the Multiple Origins of Namban Lacquer" at the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Conference
 In Search of the Multiple Origins of Namban Lacquer
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan
2016/09/19 - 2016/09/30 Invited to join a research trip with Japanese scientists and researchers to examine lacquer objects in different Portuguese collections (Évora, Lisbon, Viseu, Porto)
Other
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan
2015/11/17 - 2015/11/20 Workshop with Japanese artisan and lacquer conservator Yamashita Yoshihiko: Introduction into the Japanese lacquer craft, evaluation of conservation conditions, materials, techniques and methods - Workshop III: To develop knowledge and skill for conservation and restoration of Urushi (consolidation, adhesion)
Workshop
 The Conservation and Restoration of Urushi (Japanese lacquer) Ware III
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Germany
2014/11/25 - 2014/11/28 Workshop with Japanese artisan and lacquer conservator Yamashita Yoshihiko: Introduction into the Japanese lacquer craft, evaluation of conservation conditions, materials, techniques and methods - Workshop II: To develop knowledge and skill for conservation and restoration of Urushi
Workshop
 Conservation and Restoration of urushi (Japanese lacquer) ware II
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Germany
2013/11/26 - 2013/11/29 Workshop with Japanese artisan and lacquer conservator Yamashita Yoshihiko: Introduction into the Japanese lacquer craft, evaluation of conservation conditions, materials, techniques and methods - Workshop IV: Develop knowledge and skill for conservation and restoration of Urushi
Workshop
 Conservation and restoration of urushi (Japanese lacquer) ware IV
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Germany
2012/11/02 - 2012/11/03 Workshop with Japanese artisan and lacquer conservator Yamashita Yoshihiko: Introduction into the Japanese lacquer craft, evaluation of conservation conditions, materials, techniques and methods - Workshop I: Gain basic knowledge for conservation and restoration of Urushi
Workshop
 Conservation and Restoration of urushi (Japanese lacquer) ware I
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Germany
2012/04/18 - 2012/04/19 Meeting Michael Schilling (GCI) and Nanke Schellmann (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) in Vienna to discuss Asian lacquers and the analysis of lacquer samples of my PhD investigation
Meeting
The Getty Conservation Institute, United States

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020 - Current Associação Profissional de Conservadores-Restauradores de Portugal (ARP) [Professional Association of Portuguese Conservators, ARP] Member