Dr Nora Veszpremi

I am an art historian specialising in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European art. My research focuses on central and east-central Europe, with a particular interest in the relationship between art, memory and national identity and histories of museums and collecting. My teaching covers western, as well as central and east-central Europe. At Aberystwyth, I teach modules on eighteenth- to early-twentieth-century art history, as well as on theoretical approaches to art.

Before coming to Aberystwyth School of Art, I was a Research Fellow on the European Research Council-funded project Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918-1939 (CRAACE), which began at the University of Birmingham and subsequently moved to Masaryk University in Brno. My book resulting from this project, Persistent Illusions: Visual Culture and Historical Memory in Interwar Hungary, was published by Cornell University Press in 2025. Prior to this project, I was a Research Fellow on a Leverhulme-funded project based at the University of Birmingham, which explored the museum landscape in the Habsburg Empire in the long nineteenth century. The project resulted in two monographs, The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century and Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts (Penn State University Press, 2021, and Routledge, 2020; both co-authored with Matthew Rampley and Markian Prokopovych). My articles have been published in journals such as the Oxford Art Journal, Austrian History Yearbook, Art History, Journal of the History of Collections, and The Art Bulletin. In 2021, the Centre for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, awarded me with its R. John Rath Prize for my article on landscape and memory in central Europe after the First World War, published in the Austrian History Yearbook in 2021.

Before joining the project at Birmingham, I was an Assistant Professor in Art History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Prior to this academic appointment, I was a curator at the Hungarian National Gallery, where I co-curated major exhibitions on nineteenth-century art.