[1][2] The focus of her research interests is on stained glass and panel painting from the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Dagmar Regina Täube was born in Grevenbroich, an industrial city a short distance to the west of Cologne.
Thanks to various bursaries (DAAD, Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds, Dr. Franz Stüsser foundation) she benefitted from foreign placements in 1987 and 1989 at Brussels, Utrecht and The Hague.
Between 1991 she combined this with a post as academic assistant at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, during which period she choreographed the Stefan Lochner exhibition, celebrating a relatively little-known late-medieval artist whose work she has further championed and elucidated subsequently.
[2] However, she left the Schnütgen after Moritz Woelk took over and the Glanz und Größe des Mittelalters exhibition that she had been curating.