Lothar Schultes

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Lothar Schultes (* 1955 in Mistelbach , Lower Austria) is an Austrian art historian and artist .

Life

Lothar Schultes graduated from high school in St. Pölten and then studied sculpture in the Wander Bertoni master class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and art history and archeology at the University of Vienna , where he was also a study assistant from 1979-81. In 1982 he did his doctorate under Gerhard Schmidt on the subject: Austria's share in the development of beautiful style sculpture.

In 1983/84 he worked at the Austrian Belvedere Gallery . Afterwards he was a teacher at the Higher Federal Graphical Teaching and Research Institute in Vienna . Since 1985 he has worked at the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz . Here he heads the Art History Collection and the Decorative Arts Collection. In 1989/90 and 2005/06 he taught at the University of Graz . From 1995 to 2002 he held a lectureship in medieval art history at the Linz Art University .

Lothar Schultes designed many exhibitions and wrote numerous publications on art from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. In 2002 he headed the nationwide project Gotik Schätze Upper Austria . He works on the history of fine arts in Austria , the Dictionary of Art, the General Artist Lexicon , the Austrian Biographical Lexicon and the Upper Austria Archive. On the occasion of the Capital of Culture year, he curated the exhibition Sehnsucht Natur in Vilnius and in the Linz Castle Museum . Landscapes of Europe . Last exhibition: Johann Baptist Reiter in the Linz Castle Museum and in the Nordico together with Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller. Since 2012, Schultes has also been working increasingly as a photographer and giving lectures in the “Deep Space Live” of the Ars Electronica Center . He was married to the art historian Ulrike Schultes-Harhammer, who died in 2019.

Publications

Book chapters and articles

  • Franciscan sculpture. In: 800 years of Francis of Assisi . Franciscan Art and Culture of the Middle Ages. Exhibition catalog. Krems 1982, pp. 666-686.
  • A Gothic figure of St. Nikolaus from Fuglau . In: Kamptal-Studien 4 (1984), pp. 155-160.
  • The Viennese Michaelermeister . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte XXXVII. 1984, pp. 41-66, 199-210.
  • Art at the time of Albrecht II. In: Duke Albrecht II. And the Kartause Gaming. Exhibition catalog. Gaming 1985, pp. 130-135.
  • The master of Großlobming and the Viennese sculpture of the beautiful style . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte XXXIX. 1986, pp. 1-40, 223-244.
  • On the origin and art-historical position of the Znojmo Altar. In: Austrian Journal for Art and Monument Preservation XLII. 1987, pp. 14-37.
  • Medieval sculpture in the Mühlviertel . In: The Mühlviertel. Nature. Culture. Life. Exhibition catalog. Weinberg Castle in 1988.
  • Prague and Vienna around 1400, sculpture and painting. In: Prague around 1400. The beautiful style . Bohemian painting and sculpture in the Gothic. Exhibition catalog. Vienna 1990.
  • The master of Großlobming and Hans von Judenburg - contemporary and individual style around 1400. In: Internationale Gotik in Mitteleuropa (Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch Graz 24, 1990), pp. 253-268.
  • Our and the empire's sculptors. Some aspects of the patronage of Emperor Frederick III . In: Art Yearbook of the City of Linz 1992/93. Pp. 160-181.
  • Medieval sculpture in and around Steyr . In: R. Koch, B. Prokisch: Stadtpfarrkirche Steyr . Building history and art history. Verlag Ennsthaler, Steyr 1993.
  • Discovered reality. Proto-genre tendencies in late medieval art in Upper Austria. In: Lebenswelten-Everytagsbilder (=  catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum. 63). Linz 1993, pp. 11-22.
  • Another Seneca. The Bruckner bust of Victor Tilgner as part of the modern genius cult. In: Music City Linz - Music Land Upper Austria. As part of the International Bruckner Festival Linz 1990, 19. – 23. September 1990 (Linz 1993), pp. 47-56.
  • A Johannesschüssel in Kremsmünster Abbey . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte XLVI / XLVII. 1993/94, pp. 657-662, 863-866.
  • The Master of Grosslobming and the Austrian Art of the Late 14th Century. In: A. Saliger: The Master of Großlobming (181st temporary exhibition of the Austrian Gallery). Vienna 1994, pp. 31-43.
  • The Sculpture Find from Buda and the Master from Großlobming . In: Josef Macek, Ernő Marosi , Ferdinand Seibt: Sigismund von Luxemburg . Emperor and King in Central Europe 1387–1437. Fahlbusch, Warendorf 1994, pp. 293-306.
  • On the art of Upper Austrian Eisenwurzen , from the 8th to the 18th century. In: Land of Hammers. Homeland Eisenwurzen. Exhibition catalog. Salzburg 1998.
  • Drawing in Upper Austria from the Middle Ages to the Second World War. In: The Art of Line. Possibilities of the graphic. Exhibition catalog (=  catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum. 145). Linz 1999.
  • A country in pictures. New insights into old views. In: From view to view. Upper Austria in historical local views. Exhibition catalog (=  catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum. 148). Linz 2000.
  • The sculpture - from the Michaelmas master to the end of the beautiful style . In: G. Brucher (Hrsg.): Gotik (=  history of the visual arts in Austria. Volume II ). Munich / London / New York 2000, pp. 344–396.
  • Gothic sculpture in and around Krems . In: 1000 years of Krems - on the river of time (= the lectures of the 15th symposium of the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies Krems on the Danube , July 3 to 6, 1996, studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies. Volume 24) . St. Pölten 2001, pp. 85-120.
  • Podzim stredoveku - cisarské umení za Friedricha III . / Autumn of the Middle Ages - Imperial art at the time of Frederick III . In: Podsim Stredoveku (The Waning of the Middle Ages) Moravská galerie v Brne. 2001, pp. 71-87.
  • The master of Mondsee . New observations on an important artist of the late Middle Ages. In: Belvedere. Visual arts magazine. Issue 1/2001, pp. 4–12.
  • New knowledge about the master of Kefermarkt . In: H. Kalb, R. Sandgruber (Hrsg.): Festschrift Rudolf Zinnhobler for his 70th birthday. Linz 2001, pp. 293-325.
  • To the sculpture of the Braunau baker's altar. In: The Braunauer baker's altar (= significant works of art. Endangered - preserved - presented. 16). Austrian Gallery, Vienna 2001, p. 10 f.
  • "The poor painter". On the social situation of visual artists in the Viennese Biedermeier period . In: Studies in Musicology. Supplements of the monuments of music art in Austria. 50th volume, Tutzing 2002, pp. 59-80.
  • Plastic from the end of the Fine Style to the beginning of the Renaissance . In: A. Rosenauer (Hrsg.): Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (=  history of the fine arts in Austria. Volume III). Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2003, pp. 301–366.
  • The example of antiquity - your continued life in the Middle Ages and modern times. In: What we are into. Archeology in Upper Austria. Exhibition catalog. Linz 2003.
  • The riders of Mauerkirchen and the image of the knight around 1300. In: Festschrift Gerhard Winkler for his 70th birthday (= yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Society for Regional Studies. Volume 149). Linz 2004, pp. 403-434.
  • Poland and Austria in the 15th Century - Facets of an Artistic Relationship. In: E. Werner (Ed.): The countries of the Bohemian Crown and their neighbors at the time of the Jagiellonian kings (1471–1526). Art - culture - history. Jan Thorbecke , Ostfildern 2004, pp. 421–432.
  • The relief of the birth of Christ from Freistadt / Hlohovec , the Vienna castle chapel figures and the sculptures of the Kaschau high altar. In: Galéria - Ročenka Slovenskej Národnej galérie v Bratislave 2004–2005, pp. 247–264.
  • The poet as a painter. In: Weltkunst . The magazine for art and antiques. Issue 10/2005, pp. 60f.
  • The Aggsbacher Marientod and the early work of Veit Stoss . In: Organisty, Adam (ed.); Horzela, Dobrosława [ed.]: Wokół Wita Stwosza: materiały z międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej w Muzeum Narodowym w Krakowie, 19–22 maja 2005, Kraków 2006, pp. 53–61.
  • Adalbert Stifter as a draftsman and painter. In: Yearbook of Upper Austria. Museum association. Society for regional studies. Volume 152, Linz 2007, pp. 237-300 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • On the artistic origin and impact of Thomas Schwanthaler . In: The Bundschuh. Local history from the Inn and Hausruck districts. 10, 2007, pp. 19-36.
  • Karl Buchta - portraitist of an era. In: F. Fellner (Ed.): Karl Buchta. From sign painter to portraitist 1861–1928. Mühlviertler Schlossmuseum, Freistadt 2008, pp. 36–43.
  • Salzkammergut art landscape - a foray. In: Roman Sandgruber (Ed.): Salzkammergut. Upper Austria. State exhibition 2008. Linz 2008, pp. 127–135.
  • Johann Baptist Wengler . An Innviertel among Indians. In: Go West. Exhibition catalog. Kunsthalle Krems 2008, pp. 29–39.
  • Art in Upper Austria at the time of Bruckner . In: Bruckner Conference: The Young Bruckner, St. Florian Monastery, 15. – 18. September 2005. Linz 2008, pp. 89–116.
  • From the "Knight" of St. Florian to the Steyr figure cycle. Prague and Upper Austria in the 14th century. In: Prague and the great cultural centers of Europe in the time of the Luxembourgers (1310–1437). International conference on the occasion of the 660th anniversary of the founding of Charles University in Prague, March 31 - April 5, 2008. Prague 2008, pp. 345–374.
  • The Zwettler Altar and its master - a balance / Světelský oltář a jeho mistr / ři - bilance, in: Světelský oltář v contextu pozdně gotického umění střední Evropy. Sborník příspěvků přednesených na mezinárodním sympoziu konaném na zámku v Mikulově 20. a 21. června 2007. = Zwettler Altar in the context of late Gothic art in Central Europe. Anthology of papers on the international symposium that (sic!) Took place in Mikulov Castle on June 20 and 21, 2007, pp. 83-102.
  • The art of the Renaissance in Upper Austria. In: Karl Vocelka , Rudolf Leeb, Andrea Scheichl (eds.): Renaissance and Reformation. Upper Austria. State exhibition 2010. Linz 2010, pp. 81–95.
  • Lawyer and collector. The Kastner donation in the Linz Castle Museum. In: PARNASS. 3/2010, pp. 124-126.
  • Thomas Schwanthaler . His life, his art, his meaning. In: PARNASS. 4/2010, pp. 42-48.
  • The enthroned Madonna from Nonnberg Abbey . In: Peter Husty, Peter Laub (eds.): Ars sacra. Art treasures of the Middle Ages from the Salzburg Museum. Salzburg 2010, pp. 175-180.
  • The Madonna from Rein Abbey - Attempt to re-evaluate In: segments. Writings of the Reiner Kreis No. 14. In memory of hwst. Abbot Petrus Steigenberger. Rein 2011, pp. 124-144.
  • The Madonna in childbed in St. Florian Monastery . In: Yearbook of Upper Austria. Museum association. Society for regional studies. Volume 156, Linz 2011, pp. 49-73 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • An apostle altar of the master SH In: Historia Artis Magistra. Ljubljana 2012, pp. 261–268.
  • The painter Hans von Judenburg . In: Marjeta Ciglenečki, Polona Vidmar (Ed.): Art and Architecture around 1400. Global and Regional Perspectives. Maribor 2012, pp. 209-217.
  • What remains of the Kefermarkt master ? In: Festschrift for Walter Aspernig on the occasion of his 70th birthday (= yearbook of the Upper Austria. Musealverein. Society for Regional Studies. Volume 157). Linz 2012, pp. 227-241 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Linz - the baroque city. In: Karl Möseneder, Michael Thimann, Adolf Hofstetter (eds.): Baroque art and culture in the Danube region. Volume 2, Petersberg 2014, pp. 615-631.
  • This portrait is enchantingly beautiful ... Beauty portrayed. In: Gerda Ridler (Ed.): Myth Beauty. Facets of the beautiful in nature, art and society. Exhibition catalog. Upper Austrian State Museum. Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7757-3984-9 , pp. 151-169.
  • A beautiful body that all lips praise! ibid, pp. 179-199.
  • Ain't it a beautiful world ibid, pp. 200-217.
  • ... a new Adam ... The naked Christ in the Linz Castle Museum. In: Festschrift for Georg Heilingsetzer on his 70th birthday (= yearbook of the Society for Regional Studies and Monument Preservation Upper Austria. Volume 160). Linz 2015, pp. 455-489 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • The sculptures of the south choir. In: Mario Schwarz (Ed.): The Vienna Hofburg in the Middle Ages. From the fort to the beginnings of the imperial residence. Vienna 2015, pp. 271–275.
  • Anton Bruckner in contemporary art. Thoughts on Renate Grasberger's Bruckner iconography. In: Andreas Lindner, Klaus Petermayr (Eds.): Bruckner Conference Bruckner and Upper Austria? - Anton Bruckner's significance for the present. Linz 2015, pp. 161–212.
  • The Linz Castle . From the beginning to the end of the monarchy. In: Gerda Ridler (Ed.): Schlossmuseum Linz. Treasures from Upper Austria. Linz 2016, pp. 12–37.
  • Art history. ibid, pp. 213-217.
  • Applied arts. ibid, pp. 218-221.
  • Horses in art. In: Man & Horse, Cult and Passion, Upper Austria. State exhibition 2016. Exhibition catalog. Linz 2016, pp. 241-253.
  • The Viennese Michael Master in Prague? In: Ecclesia docta - Společenství ducha a umění. K životnímu jubileu proferora Jiřího Kuthana (= Historia et historia artium. Vol. XXIII). Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2016, pp. 330–348.
  • Three Madonnas - three masterpieces. Highlights of early Habsburg court art. In: Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation LXX. Issue 3/4, 2016, pp. 318–327.
  • Death and the Maiden - Bia or Maria de 'Medici ? In: Communications from the Society for Comparative Art Research in Vienna, vol. 69, No. 1/2, February 2017, pp. 1–6.
  • About collecting. In: Petra-Maria Dallinger, Georg Hofer and Bernhard Judex (Eds.): Art and Kitsch in the Archive (= Archive in the Stifterhaus. Volume 3). StifterHaus, Linz 2017, pp. 11–19.
  • Baroque is booming. In: EuroJournal H. 2/2017, S. 4–6 and H. 4/2017, S. 8 f.
  • On the early work of Franz Xaver Bobleter . In: Yearbook of the Society for Regional Studies and Monument Preservation Upper Austria. Volume 12, Linz 2017, pp. 193–244.
  • From fame to oblivion? In: Anton Bruckner Institut Linz, Mitteilungen No. 21, July 2018, p. 16 f.
  • An unknown youth portrait by Karl Schiedermayr , ibid, p. 18 f.
  • Religious Art of the 19th Century in Central Europe - Trends and Developments. In: Andrea Harrandt (Ed.): Trends in Church Music in the 19th Century in Central Europe (publications by the Institute for Austrian Music Documentation Volume 40, edited by Thomas Leibnitz). Hollitzer Verlag, Vienna 2018, pp. 181–215.
  • From the cradle to the grave - home in art. In: home? Lecture series. Published by the Upper Austria. Landesarchiv, Linz 2018, pp. 191–260.
  • The Emperor's Tomb - An Odyssey , in: Communications from the Society for Comparative Art Research in Vienna, Vol. 71, No. 1/2, February 2019, pp. 1–16.
  • Garland Mary and Adoration of the Magi. On the special iconography of the Mondsee altarpiece. In: Stella Rollig, Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer (ed.), In view: The master of Mondsee. Belvedere, Vienna 2020, pp. 69–78.

Art projects (selection)

  • Art and Miracles (10-part object, 1999, owned by the artist)
  • Rose time (temporary object, exhibited in Bad Hall 2005 and Freistadt 2016)
  • Linz is bleeding (November 2006, submitted for Linz 09 , not executed)
  • Lichtstiege (March 12, 2008, submitted for Linz 09 , not executed)
  • Water curtain II (project for the Linz railway bridge, submitted for Linz 09 , not implemented)

Exhibitions as an artist (selection)

  • From the hidden (Linz, Oberbank, 1999)
  • Transformations (Freistadt, Castle Museum, 2016)
  • Metamorphoses (Bad Hall, Forum Hall, 2017)
  • Metamorphoses (Linz, Kulturverein Besser Leben, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wander Bertoni: Sculpture and haptics . Vienna 1974.
  2. ↑ PDF on ZOBODAT
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ^ Linz - Faces of a City. Provincial Library Publishing, accessed May 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schultes, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian, artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mistelbach (Lower Austria)