Edwin Lachnit
Edwin Lachnit (born September 26, 1950 in Vienna ; † August 17, 2014 there ) was an Austrian art historian .
biography
Edwin Lachnit studied art history at the University of Vienna from 1975 and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1984 with a dissertation on the relationship between the Vienna School of art history and contemporary art (published in a revised form in 2005). During his studies he worked for the central index of the Department for Monument Research at the Federal Monuments Office.
In 1985 he worked on a university research project on Donatello . In 1986 he was deputy director of the furniture collection of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he was involved in exhibition organization and publication activities.
From 1987 to 1990 he headed a research project for the scientific development of the Oskar Kokoschka documentation Pöchlarn ; His area of responsibility included the creation of a library catalog, the cataloging of the collections and the organization of the annual special exhibitions with accompanying publications. In 1991 he began a research project at the Albertina Collection of Graphics in Vienna to compile a catalog raisonné of Oskar Kokoschka's drawings and watercolors.
Lachnit was exhibition curator and collection manager at MUMOK from 1992 to 2001, and from 1993 to 1995 he was the representative of the curia and deputy chairman of the board of the Austrian Association of Art Historians. From 1995 to 1996 he headed a research project on the artists of the Nötscher circle at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (published in 1998).
He wrote numerous publications and gave lectures on art of the 19th and 20th centuries and on the theory and methodology of art history.
Works (selection)
- Herbert Boeckl. The picture of the naked person , Welz, Salzburg 1992
- Wrestling with the angel. Anton Kolig - Franz Wiegele - Sebastian Isepp - Gerhart Frankl , Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1998
- The Vienna School of Art History and the Art of its Time. On the relationship between method and subject of research at the beginning of modernism , Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2005
Web links
- Literature by and about Edwin Lachnit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edwin Lachnit's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lachnite, Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |