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URSULA HAWLITSCHKA
Department of Art History
Ph.D. Art History, Temple University,
Philadelphia
M.A. Art History (Fine Arts Administration),
Temple University,
Philadelphia
Zwischenprüfung, Art History,
Eberhard-Karls Universität
Tübingen, Germany
The Fine Arts Area
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome
Ursula Hawlitschka has taught Art History in both
the U.S. and Italy for over fifteen years, specializing
in modern and contemporary art as well as
Art Gallery Management. Dividing her time between
the academic and professional art world,
she has held positions of researcher and curator
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Institute
of Contemporary Art, and Temple University Gallery
in Philadelphia.
Dr. Hawlitschka has directed international
modern and contemporary art galleries in both
New York City and Rome, conducted interviews
with internationally renowned artists on Italian
television and produced a documentary on the
Pastificio Cerere, the (in)famous Roman pasta
factory turned art studios, in San Lorenzo.
Professor Hawlitschka also continues to work as
independent curator and art consultant.
The Fine Arts Area offers students extraordinary
experiences in the fields of painting, drawing
and music. With a faculty richly diverse in
style and method, students of the visual arts
are encouraged to grapple with themes both
contemporary and classical. Instruction is
both technical and theoretical, but the true
“Master Classes” are given by the Old Masters
themselves; works by Michelangelo, Raphael,
Caravaggio and Titian await all eager and
aspiring artists in many of the neighboring
museums and churches throughout Rome.
For those more interested in music, students
may choose to study the history of opera or
they may engage directly the power of song
by participating in the university-sponsored
Amazing Grace gospel choir.
“Tree Ascending”
Oil on canvas, 95 x 154 cm
Prof. Breda C. Ennis, 2006
Irene Greaves JAImES
Venezuela
Art History
I fell in love with Rome when I first visited. I applied to
AUR, was accepted, and came in a heartbeat. Studying
art history in Rome has been the best experience
of my life and Rome as a classroom is priceless. I
have had many on-site courses, including one on
Modern Art that involved a trip to Paris and another
on Renaissance Art that went to Florence. I have
worked as a guide for a company that shows Rome’s
art to visitors; volunteered with German archeologists
in Rome; participated in Harvard’s Model UN
conference in Boston; contributed to Remus, AUR’s
literary magazine; and enrolled in a summer course at
Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London.
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