Werner Telesko

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Werner Telesko (* 1965 in Linz ) is an Austrian art historian and historian .

Life

Werner Telesko studied art history, history and classical archeology at the University of Vienna until 1988 . Until 1990 Telesko was a research assistant at the Historical Institute at the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome . He then worked for three years as a scientific assistant to the curator in the art collections of the Benedictine monastery in Göttweig . In 1993 he completed his doctorate at the University of Vienna with the dissertation “Göttweiger Illumination of the 12th Century. Studies on manuscript production in a reform monastery ” . Since then he has been a research assistant at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , where he works in various functions. Since 1999 he has been teaching at the institute for art history at the University of Vienna, and in spring 2009 a visiting professorship took him to the “École pratique des Hautes Études” at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 2000 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna for medium, modern and modern art history with the book “Napoleon Bonaparte. The modern hero and the visual arts 1799–1815 ” . As one of the youngest humanities scholars, he was elected a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2010 and a full member in 2013. Since January 1, 2013 he has been director of the Institute for Art and Music History Research.

Exhibition curator

As a specialist in Austrian art of the 18th and 19th centuries, rulers iconography and Christian iconography, Werner Telesko curated exhibitions for several museums:

  • " Credo . Faith in Art ”(May 10– October 31, 2013) for the Diözesanmuseum St. Pölten; Catalog entry: Seeing Faith. To visualize the Credo in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. In: Werner Telesko u. a. (Ed.): Credo. Faith in art (exhibition cat. Diözesanmuseum St. Pölten, 10 May – 31 October 2013)
  • “Europe in Vienna. The Vienna Congress 1814/15 ”(February 20 - June 21, 2015) for the Belvedere, Vienna; together with Sabine Grabner
  • “ Maria Theresa . Strategist - Mother - Reformer ”(March 15 - November 29, 2017) for Schönbrunn Palace Cultural and Operating Company

honors and awards

Publications

Werner Telesko has written over a dozen independent publications and is the author of numerous articles. The catalog of the Central Institute for Art History Munich (KUBIKAT) offers the best overview.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy : wM Univ.-Doz. Dr. Werner Telesko ; accessed on March 8, 2019
  2. ^ "Europe in Vienna. The Congress of Vienna 1814/15 ”on the Belvedere website, accessed on February 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Alexandra Matzner: The Vienna Congress 1814/1815 Europe in Vienna. artinwords.de, last accessed on June 19, 2016
  4. ↑ Announcement of the Schönbrunn Palace Culture and Operating Society, accessed on February 13, 2016 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schoenbrunn.at
  5. ^ University of Vienna: From monastic asceticism to imperial splendor. Research Award for Werner Telesko ; accessed on March 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Telesko, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz