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Barbara Karl
Barbara Karl studied art history and languages at the University of Vienna. Before becoming curator of the Textiles and Carpets Collection at the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, she carried out research projects in Pisa at the Scuola Normale Superiore, and in Vienna at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Focusing on the early modern period, Karl has published books and articles on Indian textiles for the European market; merchants as agents of intercultural transfer; the influence of India on European material culture; the collecting of Islamicate Art in Medici Florence and Habsburg Vienna; and Ottoman textiles. Karl is currently director of the Textile Museum in St. Gallen, Switzerland.