KONSTANZE AMELIE KNITTLER
COURSE LEADER, ARTS OF ASIA AND THEIR MARKETS, SEMESTER COURSE
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA EAST ASIAN ART, MA FINE & DECORATIVE ART
PhD in Art History, University of Glasgow, Postgraduate Diploma in Fine and Decorative Art, Sotheby`s Institute of Art, London, MPhil in Art History and Studies of English Language and Literature, University of Vienna, Austria
Konstanze Amelie Knittler worked in the commercial art market in Vienna, Austria before being awarded a Leverhulme PhD scholarship at the University of Glasgow in 2006. Her doctoral thesis deals with motivations and collecting patterns in the field of Chinese ceramics. Further research interests include the collecting of Chinese ceramics and the British art market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Konstanze contributed to the Chinese Collections Research Project at the Lady Lever Art Gallery/Port Sunlight, and she has recently published an article on Famille Noire porcelain. She further functioned as a Visiting Lecturer at Christie`s Education for “The Arts of China” programme in 2009/2010.