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1 Last checked 16 March 2022
I am a senior research fellow at the University of Huddersfield with a special interest in the art, social and cultural history of Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In my current project, recently awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, I focus on humanitarian organisations who saved the renowned Belgian lace industry in the First World War, while simultaneously ensuring the wartime employment of Belgian lacemakers in German-occupied Belgium and among Belgian refugees in Holland, France and the UK. The produced lace became known as war lace, as its unique iconography referred directly to the conflict.
I started this multidisciplinary and transnational research in the academic year 2018-19 as a Fulbright and honorary Belgian American Educational Foundation scholar at Columbia University and continued it a year later as an academic visitor at the University of Oxford. For my postdoctoral research, I additionally received a one-year postdoctoral mandate by KU Leuven and a travel grant by the Hoover Presidential Foundation.
Prior to this, I completed my PhD in Art History on the professionalisation of amateur artists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which I tested by means of aristocratic amateur women artists in Belgium (KU Leuven, Belgium, 2018). My forthcoming book Adellijk & artistiek. Amateurkunstenaressen met blauw bloed in België (1815-1914) has been awarded with the Prize 2021 of the Fonds Keingiaert de Gheluvelt.
Besides my academic research, I curated the exhibitions Vrouwen met stijl. Penseelprinsessen in Hingene (Belgium, Kasteel d’Ursel, 2013) and Romantic Landscapes. Marie de Flandre (Belgium, Royal Palace, 2015).
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference types › Abstract › peer-review
Wendy Wiertz (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Wendy Wiertz (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Wendy Wiertz (Organiser), Nel de Mûelenaere (Organiser) & Vrints Antoon (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Wendy Wiertz (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Wendy Wiertz (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation