Alexander Wied

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Alexander Wied (born June 1, 1943 in Linz ) is an Austrian art historian .

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Wied attended the Academic Gymnasium in Linz and graduated there in 1961. He studied law at the University of Vienna as well as art history , classical archeology and German at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, and received his doctorate in 1970.

Wied initially worked as a freelancer at the Linz City Museum , where he worked on the Austrian Art Topography . He wrote a number of articles as a cultural reporter for the Salzburger Nachrichten . From 1974 to 1992 he worked in Graz as curator 1st class at the Neue Galerie of the Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum and from 1992 to 2008 curator at the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna . The main focus of his museum and scientific activities were painting of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as architecture and painting of the 16th century.

Wied was a member of the Austrian National Committee of the ICOM . He has been a member of the MAERZ artists' association since 1971 . He is considered an expert in southern Dutch painting of the 16th century, the Valckenborch family and Breughel. During his activity he participated in all major exhibitions of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, wrote numerous articles for exhibition catalogs and specialist journals and published on the museum's collections.

Awards

  • In 2006 Alexander Wied was awarded the professional title of Professor .

Publications (selection)

  • Konrad Meindl on memory , Art Yearbook of the City of Linz 1970, Linz, 1971, pp. 49–54.
  • Exhibition catalog: The architect Mauriz Balzarek 1872–1945. Art Nouveau and Objectivity in Linz Exhibition of the City Museum Linz in the New Gallery of the City of Linz, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum , 1972, 84 pp.
  • Editor: The Artists' Association Maerz, 1913–1973 , Linz, 1973, 166 pp.
  • Lucas van Valckenborch , Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna, Volume 67, Vienna, 1971, pp. 119–231.
  • Biedermeier architecture in Linz , in: Art Yearbook of the City of Linz 1972, Linz, 1973, pp. 55–74.
  • Iron marks found for the first time in the Linz area, Art Yearbook of the City of Linz 1974/75, Linz 1975, pp. 100–102
  • Exhibition catalog: Margret Bilger 1904–1971, selection from the complete works, exhibition, Graz 1977
  • Austrian Art Topography 42, Institute for Austrian Art Research, Ed. By Marlene Zykan, adaptation by Alexander Wied: The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz Adaptation based on preliminary work by Justus Schmidt , with contributions by Renate Kux-Julg and Georg Wacha , part 1 , The old town, Vienna 1977, part 2 1986
  • Upper Austrian waters in painting of the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Upper Austria, culture magazine, year 35, 1985, issue 3, pp. 2–9.
  • The early works of the architect Hans Steineder (* 1904; † 1976) , in: Upper Austria, Kulturzeitschrift, vol. 37, 1987, issue 1, pp. 61–68.
  • Lucas and Marten van Valckenborch , 1535–1597 and 1534–1612. The complete work with a critical oeuvre catalog, Freren, 1990, 311 pp.
  • News on Lucas and Marten van Valckenborch , Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna, Bankd 85/86, NF 49/50, 1989/90, Vienna, 1990, pp. 9–23.
  • The gardens in the paintings of the Valckenborch family of painters , Gardens of the Rubens Period, Hamm 2000
  • On new drawings by Fritz Panzer , in: Fritz Panzer, 2005
  • An unknown fragment of a novel by the painter Franz Sedlacek , in: Die Rampe. Hefte für Literatur 2013, Heft 2, Heftschwerpunkt March 1913–2013, pp. 17–30.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WIED Alexander , PDF on ZOBODAT
  2. ↑ Alexander Wied in: Press release of the Ministry of Education, Minister of Education Gehrer presents high state awards, queried on December 31, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Wied, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz