Dr. Alexandra Loske

Alexandra Loske is an art historian and curator with a particular interest in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century European art and architecture. Born in brought up in Germany, she came to the UK in 1997. For the first two years she worked as a bookseller in London's Charing Cross Road. Alexandra read literature and linguistics at Humboldt University, Berlin, and has a postgraduate degree and a DPhil in Art History from Sussex University. She has been working at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, East Sussex, since 2008 and is still an associate of Sussex University. She has curated a number of exhibitions and displays, including ones on Regency Colour, exotic animals, local history, and the life and times of Jane Austen. She has lectured and published widely on colour history and related topics, appeared as an art historian on many TV and radio programmes, and writes regularly for local and national magazines and blogs.