CONTRIBUTOR:

Susan Maxwell

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Art History

INSTITUTION:

University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

BIOGRAPHY:

Susan Maxwell is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She specializes in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art history with a particular interest in the history of prints, drawings, and theories of collecting and display. Her publications include a monograph on The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris: Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria (Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011), and numerous articles on art, collecting, and patronage at the Wittelsbach court of Bavaria, focusing on Duke Wilhelm V and Prince Elector Maximilian I in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She has been a DAAD research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, an Honorary Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg Munich, and has received research support from the Historians of Netherlandish Art, the J.Paul Getty Museum Library, and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Program.