Alessandra Comini

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Alessandra Comini (born November 24, 1934 in Winona , Minnesota, USA) is an American art historian and author. She is a University Distinguished Professor emeritus of Art History at Southern Methodist University in University Park , Dallas , Texas . Her specialty is research into the integrative art forms of Viennese modernism .

Life

education

Alessandra Comini was born in Winona, Minnesota, to the American Megan Laird (with Scottish-Irish roots) and the Italian Raiberto Comini (from Milan ). She spent her childhood in Barcelona , Milan and Dallas . Comini received her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, New York (1956), her Master of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley (1964) and her PhD from Columbia University (1969). Her dissertation, completed with distinction, deals with Egon Schiele's portrait painting .

University professor and researcher

From 1965 to 1974 Comini taught art history at Columbia University in New York City , where in 1972, together with other scholars, he founded the American Women's Caucus for Art , a non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates the advancement of women in art and art history . In 1974 she started working with the art historian Eleanor Tufts (1927–1991), and with her developed a specifically feminist approach to art history, which at the time was just as unknown as the artists who researched it.

In Princeton , she worked as Alfred Hodder Resident Humanist 1972-1973. She was visiting professor at the University of California , Berkeley (1967) and at Yale University (1973). In 1996 she was a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford (Great Britain) at the European Humanities Research Center . She taught at Southern Methodist University from 1974 to 2005.

International lectures, awards

Comini is a guest speaker in the United States and internationally . With her interdisciplinary lectures on iconography and music history , Comini appeared repeatedly at the symposia of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (e.g. "The visual Brahms", 1983, "The visual Bruckner", 1988, "The visual Mozart", 1991, "The visual Wagner" ), the Santa Fe Opera, and the Indianapolis and Dallas Symphony Orchestras. She gave lectures, also in German, in Helsinki and Hamburg , but above all in the Austrian capital Vienna . There she was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria as the “Doyenne of Schiele Research” in 1996 . At the opening of the Egon Schiele Museum in Lower Austria in 2018, the Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner presented her with the Great Gold Medal for Services to the State of Lower Austria .

Contemporary witness interviews

In Vienna, when she started working as a Schiele researcher in the 1960s, Comini had conversations with contemporary witnesses , including the sisters of Egon Schiele , Melanie and Gertie, who are of great ideal value for posterity as contemporary testimonies on tape. In Schiele's home Lower Austria discovered in Neulengbach prison cell in 1912 twenty-four days in the Egon Schiele long in custody sat and prison series drew.

Curatorial and journalistic work

In 2014, the Neue Galerie New York commissioned Comini to curate the exhibition Egon Schiele: Portraits . Her book The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking (1987) encompasses an interdisciplinary, cross- cutting view of iconography and the history of reception . Like her books on Schiele, Klimt and Viennese Modernism, it was sold worldwide and widely cited. The Changing Image of Beethoven was published by Rizzoli Verlag in New York in 1987 and was reprinted in the USA in 2006.

Her book Egon Schiele's Portraits (1974) was nominated for the American National Book Award (1975) and received the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award (1976) from the College Art Association.

Comini has been devoted to fiction since 2014 and has so far published eight music and art-historical crime novels in the series The Megan Crespi Mysteries . Comini's alter ego , the eighty-year-old sprightly and lively art history professor Megan Crespi , appears as the uncoverer of scandalous crimes in the milieu of the international art and classical music scene.

Publications (selection)

Alessandra Comini has published a total of more than 200 scientific publications.

  • Schiele in Prison , Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, 1973. ISBN 0-8212-0537-4
  • Egon Schiele's Portraits , Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974, 1990. ISBN 0-520-01726-9 (new edition, 2014, Santa Fe, Sunstone Press ISBN 978-1-63293-012-5 )
  • Gustav Klimt , New York, George Braziller, 1975 (French, German, and Dutch editions; reissued 1986, 1990, 1994, 2001) ISBN 0-8076-0805-X
  • Egon Schiele , New York, George Braziller, 1976 (Italian, French, German, and Dutch editions; reissued 1986, 1994, 2001) ISBN 0-8076-0819-X
  • The Fantastic Art of Vienna , New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. ISBN 0-394-50263-9 (new edition 2016, Santa Fe, Sunstone Press ISBN 978-1-63293-153-5 )
  • "The Visual Brahms: Idols and Images," Arts Magazine , 1979
  • "Gender or Genius? The Women Artists of German Expressionism," Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany , Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds., New York, Harper & Row, 1982. ISBN 0-06-430525-2
  • "The Age of Goethe Today: Of Plum Trees, Painters, Pianists, and Pamphleteers," Arts Magazine , 1988
  • The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking , New York, Rizzoli, 1987, new edition 2008, Santa Fe, Sunstone Press ISBN 0-8478-0617-0
  • "Nordic Luminism and the Scandinavian Response to Impressionism," World Impressionism , Norma Broude, ed., New York, HN Abrams, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-1774-2
  • "Siegesallee and Salome," Art and Politics in the Decisive Years by Richard Strauss , Leipzig, Gewandhaus, 1991
  • "Kollwitz in Context: The Formative Years," Käthe Kollwitz, Elizabeth Prelinger, ed., New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-300-05729-6
  • "Violetta And Her Sisters," Violetta And Her Sisters: The Lady of the Camellias, Responses to the Myth , Nicholas John, ed., London, Faber and Faber, 1994. ISBN 0-571-16665-2
  • "Toys in Freud's Attic," Picturing Children: Construction of Childhood between Rousseau and Freud , Marilyn Brown, ed., Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2002. ISBN 0-7546-0277-X
  • In Passionate Pursuit - A Memoir , New York, George Braziller, Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-8076-1523-4 (new edition 2016, Santa Fe, Sunstone Press ISBN 978-1-63293-140-5 )
  • Egon Schiele: Portraits , Alessandra Comini ed., "Egon Schiele: Redefining Portraiture in the Age of Fear," Munich, Prestel, 2014. ISBN 978-3-7913-5419-4
  • "The Two Gustavs: Klimt, Mahler, and Vienna's Golden Decade, 1887–1907," Naturlauf: Scholarly Journals toward Gustav Mahler, Essays in Honor of Henry-Louis de La Grange for His 90th Birthday , Paul-André, ed., New York, Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2015. ISBN 978-1-43312530-0
Detective novels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://katalog.arthistoricum.net/?tx_find_find%5Bq%5D%5Bdefault%5D=comini#tx_find in arthistoricum.net, accessed on August 5, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Comini, Alessandra. In: Dictionary of Art Historians , accessed July 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ https://nationalwca.org/ accessed on August 5, 2020
  4. ↑ https://arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/hodder-fellowship/ Accessed August 12, 2020
  5. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/932998?seq=1 in Das Brahms-Jahr 1983. Research report, Imogen Fellinger, Acta Musicologica Vol. 56, Fasc. 2 (Jul-Dec, 1984), pp. 145-210
  6. ^ Congress report on the 5th International Gewandhaus Symposium. Anton Bruckner - Life. Plant. Interpretation. Reception. Lieberwirth, Steffen (ed.); Published by Leipzig Edition Peters, 1988
  7. ↑ Congress report on the VII International Gewandhaus Symposium: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Research and Practice in the Service of Life, Work, Interpretation and Reception: on the occasion of the Gewandhaus Festival in Leipzig from October 3 to 6, 1991, Ed. Kurt Masur, Karl -Heinz Koehler; Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, 1993. From the series: Documents on the history of the Gewandhaus, 9.
  8. ↑ Almuth Spiegler: When Schiele's sister-in-law tore up her nudes. In: diepresse.com . April 11, 2018, accessed July 30, 2020.
  9. ↑ When the child prodigy was supposed to study painting. In: noe.orf.at . December 18, 2019, accessed July 30, 2020.
  10. ↑ Almuth Spiegler: Egon Schiele: Ostracized as "child molester and pornographer". In: diepresse.com . July 20, 2012, accessed July 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ Egon Schiele: Portraits. neuegalerie.org, accessed July 30, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Comini, Alessandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Winona , Minnesota, USA