Alois Riegl

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Alois Riegl, photo from around 1890

Alois Riegl (born January 14, 1858 in Linz , † June 17, 1905 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art historian , monument conservator and representative of the Vienna School of Art History .

Life

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In 1894 he became an associate professor, and in 1897 a full professor of art history at the University of Vienna . From 1902 to 1905, in addition to his professorship, Riegl was general curator of the central commission for the research and preservation of art and historical monuments . His efforts over several years to create an Austrian monument protection law were not very successful, although he was largely prepared to meet the concerns of private monument owners (nobility, church) about the impending financial burdens.

He was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Act

Art theory

For art theory, Alois Riegl coined the influential term of artistic will as the defining force of a style epoch . He turned against an art historiography based on value judgments and emphasized the importance of the epochs ( late antiquity ) that were then considered "times of decline" . In his view, ancient art is the starting point for both early medieval and oriental art.

Monument preservation

Riegl's concepts for monument protection also became influential. Similar to Georg Dehio in Germany, Riegl pleaded against the "perfecting" that was widespread in the 19th century and the purifying construction of historical buildings (such as Gothic churches). In contrast to Dehio's rather national view of monuments, Riegl represented a supranational and universalistic concept of monument, the core of which is the age value. (Riegl's ideal value system differentiated present values ​​and memory values. He counted the use value and the relative artistic value among the present values, the historical value and the age value he particularly emphasized.) Among other things, Riegl objected to a peeling off in the case of Diocletian's Palace in Split of the ancient monument and the removal of the later additions, which have also become historical.

Honors

In 1954, Rieglgasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Altorientalische Teppiche , Leipzig 1892. Reprint Mäander Kunstverlag, Mittenwald 1979. With a bibliographical introduction by Ulrike Besch. ISBN 3-88219-090-6 .
  • Style issues. Basic principles for a history of ornamentation . Berlin 1893 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive ).
  • Folk arts, domestic industry and domestic industry . Berlin 1894. Reprint Mittenwald, Mäander Kunstverlag, 1978 with an afterword by Mohammed Rassem. ISBN 3-88219-065-5 .
  • The late Roman art industry after the finds in Austria-Hungary in connection with the overall development of the fine arts among the Mediterranean peoples . Vienna 1901 ( digitized version ).
  • The Dutch group portrait . Vienna 1902
  • The modern monument cult. Its essence and its origin . Vienna / Leipzig 1903
Translations:
  • French:
    • Le culte modern des monuments. Sa nature, son origine ; trad. et présenté by Jacques Boulet. Paris-Villemin: École d'Architecture, 1984. (In Extenso, 3). ISBN 2-905222-02-6
    • Le culte modern des monuments. Son essence et sa genèse . Trad. de l'allemand par Daniel Wieczorek. Avant-propos de Françoise Choay. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984. (Espacements). ISBN 2-02-006821-4
    • Le culte modern des monuments. Sa nature, son origine ; trad. et présenté by Jacques Boulet. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003. (Esthétiques (Paris) - ISSN  1264-2185 ). ISBN 2-7475-5127-X (br.)
  • English:
    • The modern cult of monuments: its character and origin . Tr. Kurt W. Forster and D. Ghirardo. In: Oppositions 25, 1982, pp. 21-50. ISSN  0094-5676 .
  • Italian:
    • Il culto moderno dei monumenti: il suo carattere ei suoi inizi . Tr .: Sandro Scarrocchia. Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1985. (Rapporti della Soprintendenza per i beni artistici e storici per le province di Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì e Ravenna, 50).
  • Spanish:
    • El culto moderno a los monumentos: caracteres y origen ; traducción de Ana Pérez López. 1 ed. Madrid: Visor, 1987. (La balsa de la Medusa; 7). ISBN 978-84-7774-001-8
    • El culto moderno a los monumentos: caracteres y origen . 2a ed. Madrid: Visor, 1999. (La Balsa de la Medusa; 7). ISBN 978-84-7774-001-8
    • El culto moderno a los monumentos: caracteres y orígen ; traducción de Ana Pérez López. 3a ed. Madrid: A. Machado Libros, DL2008. (La balsa de la Medusa; 7). ISBN 978-84-7774-001-8 .
    • El culto moderno de los monumentos, su carácter y sus orígenes . 1 ed. Antológica y comentada en español por Aurora Arjones Fernández. Seville: Junta de Andalucía; Consejería de Cultura, 2007. [En la port .: Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico]. ISBN 978-84-8266-728-7
  • Czech:
    • Moderní památková péce ; [prelozeno z nemeckých originálů. Ivo Hlobil; Ivan Kruis. Precl. Ivo Hlobil; Tomás Hlobil. Národní Památkový Ústav. Ed. a red .: Ivo Hlobil; Ivan Kruis. Precl .: Ivo Hlobil; Tomás Hlobil. Národní Památkový Ústav]. Praha: Národní Památkový Ústav, Ústrední Pracoviste, 2003. [Translation of New Trends in Monument Preservation and The Modern Monument Cult ]. ISBN 80-86234-34-7
  • The emergence of baroque art in Rome. Academic lectures ... . Vienna 1908. Mäander Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-88219-370-0
  • Collected Essays. Edited by Karl M. Swoboda . Filser, Augsburg / Munich 1929.
  • Historical grammar of the fine arts . Edited from the estate by Karl M. Swoboda and Otto Pächt, Graz 1966; Reprinted by Mimesis Verlag, Sesto San Giovanni 2017, with an introduction by Andrea Pinotti.

literature

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  • Renzo Casetti: Preservation of monuments and the public - the contradictions of decisions regarding the preservation of monuments - attempted clarification and architectural theory . Zurich 1988, research project of the Swiss National Fund (methods for preserving cultural assets).
  • Renzo Casetti: The benefits and disadvantages of history in the modern monument cult. The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on Alois Riegl . In: Austrian Journal for Art and Monument Preservation 62, 2008, Issue 1, pp. 111–113.
  • Amir Djalali: Common Space: Politics and the Production of Architectural Knowledge . Pp. 97-147: Chapter III. Will to architecture. Alois Riegl's Kunstwollen and the Politics of the Grossstadt, 1896-1936. doi : 10.4233 / uuid: 52100da1-f6b1-42ce-929a-9fd329ab5d22 .
  • Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper : Present values . For a renewal of Alois Riegl's monument value theory. In: Hans-Rudolf Meier, Ingrid Scheurmann (eds.). MONUMENTS. Contributions to the theory and topicality of monument preservation. Georg Mörsch on his 70th birthday. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06903-9 , pp. 27–40.
  • Hans Fiebig: Art - Nature - History, studies of the philosophy of science and the history of science on positivism in art history using the example of Alois Riegl's theory , habilitation thesis, Philosophical Faculty, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel 1979 (unpublished).
  • Michael Gubser: Time's Visible Surface - Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna . Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2006.
  • Michael Falser: On the 100th year of Alois Riegl's death. The 'age value' as a contribution to the construction of state-national identity in the Habsburg monarchy around 1900 and its relevance today . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Denkmalpflege 59, 2005, Issue 3/4, pp. 298–311.
  • Peter Noever, Artur Rosenauer, Georg Vasold (Eds.): Alois Riegl Revisited: Contributions to the work and reception. Contributions to the Opus and its Reception . Austrian Academy of Sciences / MAK, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6498-2
  • Andrea Reichenberger: "Artistic desire". Riegl's plea for the freedom of art . In: Kritischeberichte 31, 2003, issue 1, pp. 69–85 ( digitized version ).
  • Andrea Reichenberger: Riegl's "Kunstwollen". Attempt to reconsider . Academia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2003, ISBN 3-89665-252-4 .
  • Hans Sedlmayr : Art history as style history. The quintessence of Riegl's teachings . In: Hans Sedlmayr: Art and Truth . Mäander Kunstverlag, Mittenwald 1978, ISBN 3-88219-075-2 , pp. 32-48.
  • Georg Vasold: Alois Riegl and art history as cultural history. Reflections on the early work of the Viennese scholar . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 978-3-7930-9402-9
  • Lambert Wiesing: The visibility of the picture. History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 57–91 (on Riegl's importance for the development of modern visual science).
  • Richard Woodfield (Ed.): Framing Formalism: Riegls Work . G + b Arts International, Amsterdam 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ grave place Alois Reigl , Vienna, central cemetery, Group 30, Group extension C, row 7, no. 24,.

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personal data
SURNAME Riegl, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1905
Place of death Vienna