Yadegar Asisi is a professor of architectural representation at
the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and art director of Asisi Factory.
Together with colleagues, he received the renowned Mies van der Rohe prize for a
terminal train station for the Berlin magnetic monorail. After Asisi’s acclaimed
panorama exhibition “Berlin 2005 – City Visions” in 1995 in cooperation with the
magazine “Stern”, he has concentrated mainly on his Panometer projects in Dresden
and Leipzig. Panoramic representations are a primary passion for Asisi, the architect
and artist, because they are “the perfect simulation of space.” He believes “through
the panorama we rediscover seeing.”
Sue Boardman is a native of Danville, PA and worked as an Emergency
Department nurse for 23 years. She has served as adjunct instructor for Harrisburg
Area Community College and Susquehanna University. In 2000 she became a Licensed
Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park. Beginning in 2004, Sue served
as historical consultant for the Gettysburg Battlefield Museum Foundation and received
the Superintendent’s Award for Excellence in Guiding in 2005 and 2006. In 2006,
she began working for the Gettysburg Foundation and currently serves as Leadership
Program Coordinator and consultant on the Cyclorama restoration project.
Gabriele Koller studied history of art in Munich and London and
now lives in Bonn, Germany. She works as a museum exhibition curator in the fields
of cultural history and applied arts. A panorama researcher since she wrote her
M.A. thesis on Gebhard Fugel, painter of the panorama “Jerusalem and the Crucifixion
of Christ” in Altoetting, Germany, she has published on various aspects of panorama
history. For IPC International Panorama Council she edited The World of Panoramas.
Ten Years of International Panorama Conferences (2003) and compiled the programme
of IPC’s 12th International Panorama Conference The Panorama in the Old World and
the New at Hunter College, New York, 2004. She is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis
at the University of Bonn on The Panorama in the Context of Art Exhibitions, late
18th to mid-19th Century.
Michael Kutzer was born 1941 in Leipzig/Germany. The son of the
painter Heinrich Kutzer, he studied Painting and Etching at the Academy in Stuttgart,
Art History at the University Stuttgart and Education at the Teacher's College in
Ludwigsburg. Kutzer taught Art and German at a high school in Stuttgart and worked
on his paintings, etchings and woodcuts. In 2004, he moved to Milwaukee and got
permanent residency and became and active member of WP&S. Kutzer is the lead transcriber
for the F.W. Heine Diaries Project.
Tom Lidtke, director of the Museum of Wisconsin Art since 1982,
has led the museum in its transformation from a community art center with a singular
artist collection to an American regional art museum collecting, preserving and
documenting the art of Wisconsin. He has written on Wisconsin regional art and artists
for numerous publications in Wisconsin and Germany and has taught both graduate
and undergraduate credited courses on Wisconsin art history. He has spoken on this
topic throughout the state and on several broadcast media programs. As well, he
has curated numerous Wisconsin regional art exhibitions.
Antje Petty is Assistant Director of the Max Kade Institute for
German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an interdisciplinary
institute for research and outreach on German immigration to the American Midwest
in the larger context of global migration past and present. Antje works to connect
the Institute with the community through talks, lectures and workshops. She also
works with teachers through professional development workshops and the development
of teaching materials. She holds a B.A. in International Studies and an M.A. in
Germanics from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. Robert T. Teske has held the position of Executive Director
of the Milwaukee County Historical Society since 1998. Teske received his B.A. in
Folklore and Mythology, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1970. He also
received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1972 and 1974 respectively. Teske taught at Wayne State University and Western
Kentucky University before joining the staff of the Folk Arts Program at the National
Endowment for the Arts from 1979 to 1985. Thereafter, Teske served as Associate
Curator of Exhibitions at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
from 1985 to 1988, and as the Executive Director of the Cedarburg Cultural Center
from 1988 to 1998.