Alexandra Loske

Dr Alexandra Loske is a British-German art historian, writer, and museum curator. She has a particular interest in the role of women in colour history. This research is supported by the University of Sussex, where she is a Research Associate.

Alexandra has lectured and published widely about colour history and other topics.

Her book Colour – A Visual History (2019, Ilex/Tate/Smithsonian Institute), has been translated into German and French. She is the editor of a volume on colour in the 19th century for The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Color (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), and lead author of a multi-lingual double-volume on colour for TASCHEN (The Book of Colour Concepts, 2024).

Alexandra's next book will be The Artist's Palette, to be published by Thames & Hudson and Princeton University Press in Autumn 2024. A German edition will be published by Hatje Cantz. Alexandra is currently working on a book about Brighton's Royal Pavilion (to be published by Yale University Press in 2025).