2015 until now HENI Publishing, Project Manager francis-bacon.com
2016 The John Deakin Archive, Research Project
2014 Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation Monaco, Researcher
2012 The Estate of Francis Bacon, PhD Scholarship
2011 The Estate of Francis Bacon, Research Assistant
2010 The Estate of Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon Archive Fellowship
2009 Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Exhibition Intern
2008 GMK Museum Ludwig Cologne, Project Intern
2005 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Collection Intern
2004 Museum of Eastern Asian Art Cologne, Exhibition Intern
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2009 M.A. Art History, University of Cologne
PhD Art History, University of Cologne, 2019
Dear Katharina (if I may), I have just read your fascinating, insightful and beautifully crafted essay on Bacon and Deakin in ‘The British Art Journal’. I thought it was terrific and I learned so much from it. I’m really pleased you were able to gain access to the John Deakin Archive because it can be quite a process, now that it no longer has its own stand-alone home nor full-time curator. It may interest you to know that I am earmarked to catalogue the Vogue Library’s considerable holding of Deakin’s negatives. I attempted it as a much younger man in 1985 when Bruce Bernard was still very active and able to supply names to forgotten faces, but it was half-hearted and had to be put to one side as other projects came up. I hope very much that you will write more about Deakin and Bacon. You, along with Martin Harrison and Jessica O’Donnell, have a gift for making both come vividly to life while making significant academic contributions — in my experience that’s a rarity! With all best wishes, Robin Muir