Hildegard Fraueneder

Hildegard Fraueneder is a Senior Lecturer for Art History at Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she has taught since 1995. She serves as Deputy Senate Chair and leads the program director of "Figurations of Transition" at the Science & Art Cooperation Center. Her affiliations include the Department of Fine Arts and Design and the Institute for Open Arts.

• University of Salzburg
• Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
• University of Art and Design Linz

Hildegard Fraueneder's research focuses on post-war Austria, housing and living arrangements after 1945, and gender studies in art history. She explores femininity and heroism through interdisciplinary projects and has led initiatives like the research group Art and the Public Sphere. Her work often intersects art history with socio-political discourse.

Her publications and conferences address themes like public art controversies, feminist art narratives, and cultural memory. Notable works include analyses of Salzburg's urban art spaces, Nazi-era art recontextualization, and gender dynamics in Austrian art history.

Hildegard Fraueneder has organized significant academic events, including the Austrian Congress of Art Historians (2003), "Conflict Areas of Contemporary Art" (2015), and lecture series on gender studies. She actively participates in curricular committees and gender-focused academic initiatives.