Portrait of Sabine de Günther

Sabine de Günther

History of Art & Dress

Dr. Sabine de Günther is an art and dress historian with an interdisciplinary approach and a focus on the methodology of dress studies. She examines dress and textiles, not just in terms of their aesthetic appearance but rather as markers of identity. Her most recent research project explored a collection of paintings from the “Lipperheide Costume Library – Fashion Image Collection”, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which earned her a PhD in Art History. She has a strong interest in Digital Art History, its methodologies and theories, digital research tools and all matters related to digital collections.

Projects

3D Stories

Telling Stories about Historical Dress

Restaging Fashion

Digital Contextualization of Vestimentary Sources

Publications

Activities

Conference ● 14–18 Jul 2025

DH

We are in Lisbon for DH2025 with several contributions: Viktoria Brüggemann and Mark-Jan Bludau talk about collage as co-creative design method. Silvia Casavola presents her MA project Stereoscopic Journals, which she carried out in GraDiM. And Kirill Mitsurov, presents a poster on 3D Stories.

Conference Talk ● 11 Nov 2024

Approaches to Textiles

At the conference Approaches to Textiles – Scientific, Curatorial and Digital Perspectives (University of Münster), Sabine de Günther presents Restaging Fashion in the larger context of the presentation of garments in the digital realm.

Talk ● 8 Nov 2024

Digitale Hochschule Brandenburg

Sabine de Günther presents Restaging Fashion at the Jahrestagung 2024: Digitale Hochschule Brandenburg (Center of the Brandenburg Universities for Digital Transformation).

Workshop ● 15 Jan 2024

SUB Hamburg

Sabine de Günther gives a workshop on »Explorative Visualisations of Cultural Assets. Introduction and Hands-on« at the SUB Hamburg in the series Digital Humanities – How does it work? – Time: 10am – 3.30pm, location: Book tower of Stabi, 17th floor.

Conference Talk ● 1 Dec 2023

EVA

Sabine de Günther and Ilias Kyriazis present at the Electronic Media & Visual Arts (EVA) Conference in Berlin the results of the three year digitization and research project Restaging Fashion .

Conference Talk ● 27 Nov 2023

EFHA

At the international conference of European Fashion Heritage Association (EFHA) in Utrecht, Sabine de Günther of the Restaging Fashion team shared the prototype ReFa Reader, which combines narration with exploration.

Talks ● 18–20 May 2023

netzwerk-mode-textil

Sabine de Günther gives a talk about »Curation and contextualisation through data visualization« as well as a talk on  achievements and goals of the Project Restaging Fashion at the Annual Members’ Meeting of the fashion network »netzwerk-mode-textil«.

Workshops ● 19 May 2023

netzwerk-mode-textil

Sabine de Günther, Katrin Lindemann, Andrea Döring and Oliver Bruderer give two workshops for fashion researchers at the Annual Members’ Meeting of the fashion network »netzwerk-mode-textil«.

Talk ● 20 Apr 2023

Under the magnifying glass

Sabine de Günther and Adelheid Rasche give a talk at the Symposium »Under the magnifying glass: Object-related research in museum costume-/ fashion collections« at the Rijksmuseum.

Invited Talk ● 1 Jun 2022

Close up

Sabine de Günther gives a talk about the »Rediscovery of a Fashion Cosmos« and the Restaging Fashion project at the Kunstbibliothek Berlin in the context of the Close up event series.

Workshop ● 31 May 2022

Kunstbibliothek Berlin

Sabine de Günther conducts a co-creation workshop at Kunstbibliothek Berlin in the context of the Restaging Fashion project with an input from Linda Freyberg, followed by hands-on sessions, where participants engaged with the collection.

Conference Talk ● 24 Mar 2022

Kunsthistorikertag

Sabine de Günther and Lindy Freyberg presented at the Digital Art History section of this years Kunsthistorikertag in Stuttgart Digitale Kontextualisierung und visuelle Reinszenierung vestimentärer Quellen (Digital contextualisation and visual restaging of vestimentary sources).

Online Workshop ● 25 Mar 2021

vDHd

»Let’s visit museum collections! What can we gather about the data?« — Virtual museum visits and reflections about cultural data and collection interfaces during vDHd2021.

Courses

Course ● Summer 2024

Argumentation in and through images. Visualizing European history of dress and imagery.

This course provided insights into European art and dress history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, art historical methodology and terminology. Three visualisation tools developed at UCLAB were used to construct argumentations about the artworks.


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