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type: source
title: "Profile of Dr. Michael Lissok"
tags: [art-history, biography, publications, architecture]
related: [dr-michael-lissok, kilian-heck, denkmalpflege, sepulkralkultur]
created: 2026-07-13
updated: 2026-07-13
sources: ["output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_kunstgeschichte_lehrstuehle_juniorprofessur_lehrstuhl_fue.md"]
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# Profile of Dr. Michael Lissok

This source provides a detailed professional profile, curriculum vitae, and extensive bibliography of Dr. Michael Lissok, a former research associate at the Chair of Art History under Prof. Dr. Kilian Heck at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut (CDFI).

## Academic Career
Dr. Lissok served as a research associate (*wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter*) at the CDFI from 1990 to 2024. His background includes training as a sign and poster painter in Berlin and professional experience in the advertising industry before pursuing art history studies in Leipzig.

## Research and Teaching Focus
His work is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, integrating art history with building archaeology, settlement studies, social history, and historical topography. Key areas of expertise include:
- **Architecture History:** European architecture from the late Middle Ages to the early Modern period, including urban and settlement planning.
- **Regional Focus:** Extensive research on buildings, sepulchral culture, and monuments in Mecklenburg, Pomerania, and Brandenburg/Prussia.
- **Specialized Topics:** 18th and 19th-century garden art, the history of monument preservation (**Denkmalpflege**), and the sculpture and funerary art of Classicism, Romanticism, and Historicism.
- **Caspar David Friedrich:** Research into the artist's studio and private collections in Greifswald.
- **Modernism:** Documentation of "New Building" (*Neues Bauen*) and Bauhaus-influenced architecture in Greifswald during the 1920s and 30s.

## Professional Affiliations
Dr. Lissok is active in several regional historical and artistic organizations:
- Board member of the **Historische Kommission für Pommern**.
- Member of the **AG für Pommersche Kirchengeschichte**.
- Board member of the **Kunstverein ART 7**.
