Ernst Diez (art historian)

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Ernst Dietz, oil painting by Richard Gerstl , 1907

Ernst Diez (born July 27, 1878 in Lölling ; † July 8, 1961 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art historian . The focus of his research was Islamic art .

Live and act

Diez, a cousin and childhood friend of the composer Anton Webern , studied art history and classical archeology at the universities of Vienna and Graz . In Graz, he became a student of Josef Strzygowski , in which he in 1902 with a thesis on the miniatures of the Vienna Dioscorides doctorate was. After military service in 1902/03, he went to study in Rome and Constantinople and worked as a volunteer at the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna from 1905 to 1907 .

From 1908 he was employed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , from 1909 in the Islamic Department under Friedrich Sarre , whereby he was involved in the preparations for the exhibition of Islamic art masterpieces of Muslim art in Munich in 1910. In the spring of 1911 Diez went back to the University of Vienna , where he became Strzygowski's assistant. From 1912 to 1914 he undertook a research trip to Persia with Oskar von Niedermayer , which also took him to Afghanistan and India ; in Khorasan he unsuccessfully negotiated excavations in Nishapur .

Diez served in the First World War . On August 28, 1919, he completed his habilitation in the history of art of the Orient. From 1919 he worked as a private lecturer and from 1924 as an associate professor at the University of Vienna. Here he taught early Christian and Islamic art. In 1926 he received a professorship at Bryn Mawr College , 1930 at the Western Reserve University in Cleveland and in 1931 again at Bryn Mawr College. Study trips took him from 1930 to 1931 to China , Japan , India and Java .

Diez joined the NSDAP a few months after the annexation of Austria in 1938 (membership no. 6.164.600). In 1939 he became an adjunct professor in Vienna.

In 1943 Diez traveled with his Turkish student Oktay Aslanapa to Istanbul at the invitation of the Turkish Ministry of Education , where, at the age of 65, he was professor of Islamic art at the University of Istanbul from 1943 to 1949 and set up an institute for art history. Aslanapa became his assistant. His activity was interrupted by the Turkish declaration of war on Germany towards the end of the Second World War , which led to Diez's internment in Kırşehir until 1946. His book Türk Sanatı , written at this time . Başlangıcından Günümüze Kadar ("Turkish Art. From the Beginnings to the Present") led to a scandal and protests by Turkish nationalists after its publication in July 1946 because of the demonstration of Armenian influences on Turkish art and its comparison with Byzantine art led to the dismissal of Diez. Diez returned to Vienna in 1950.

Diez was a member of the German Orient Society .

Publications (selection)

  • The miniatures of the Vienna Dioscurides. In: The Origin and Victory of Old Byzantine Art (= Byzantine Monuments, edited by Josef Strzygowski, Vol. 3). Congregation of Mechitharists, Vienna 1903, pp. 1–69 (= dissertation, University of Graz, 1902, handwritten ).
  • The art of the Islamic peoples (= manual of art history ). Academic publishing company Athenaion, Berlin-Neubabelsberg 1917 ( full text ).
  • Churasan monuments . D. Reimer, Vienna 1918.
  • with Heinrich Glück : Old Constantinople. One hundred and ten photographs of the city and its architectural and art monuments. Albert Mundt , Munich-Pasing 1920 ( full text ).
  • with Otto Demus : Byzantine Mosaics in Greece, Hosios Lucas and Daphni. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1931.
  • Turk Sanatı. Başlangıcından Günümüze Kadar. Istanbul 1946.
  • Faith and World of Islam . W. Spemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 3rd edition 1948.

literature

  • Oktay Aslanapa (Ed.): Contributions to the history of art in Asia. In Memoriam Ernst Diez. Istanbul 1963 (pp. 388-404 List of publications).
  • Ernst Kühnel : In Memoriam Ernst Diez , In: Kunst des Orients 4, 1963, pp. 110–112 (with list of publications).
  • Jens Kröger : Diez, Ernst . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica , Vol. 7, Routledge, London / New York 1996, pp. 401-402 ( full text ).
  • Karin Rührdanz : Diez, Ernst. In: Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon . 2nd Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 62-64.
  • Burcu Dogramaci : Art History in Istanbul. The establishment of the discipline by the Viennese art historian Ernst Diez. In: Ruth Heftrig, Olaf Peters , Barbara Schellewald (eds.): Art history in the “Third Reich” . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004448-4 , pp. 114-133.
  • Burcu Dogramaci: Josef Strzygowski, Ernst Diez et la construction d'une histoire nationale de l'art turc. In: Dieter Hornig, Johanna Borek, Johannes Feichtinger (Eds.): Vienne, porta Orientis (= Austriaca. Cahiers universitaires d'information sur l'Autriche 74.) Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex 2013, ISBN 978-2877755610 , p. 158-172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans and Rosaleen Moldenhauer; Anton von Webern: A Chronicle of his Life and Work. Knopf, New York 1979, pp. 37-38; Ernst Diez estate in the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch
  2. ↑ a b c Jens Kröger: Diez, Ernst . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica , Vol. 7, Routledge, London / New York 1996, pp. 401-402 ( full text ).
  3. ^ A b Wolfdieter Bihl : Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna. Research between the Maghreb and East and South Asia. The professors and lecturers . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2009, p. 103.
  4. ^ A b c Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933-1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 474.
  5. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 38.
  6. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 474. The appointment by the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and Public Education is dated April 15, 1940, Wolfdieter Bihl: Orientalistik at the University of Vienna. Research between the Maghreb and East and South Asia. The professors and lecturers . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2009, p. 103.
  7. ^ Burcu Dogramaci: Art History in Istanbul. The establishment of the discipline by the Viennese art historian Ernst Diez. In: Ruth Heftrig, Olaf Peters, Barbara Schellewald (eds.): Art history in the “Third Reich” . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004448-4 , pp. 114-133.
  8. ^ Burcu Dogramaci: Art History in Istanbul. The establishment of the discipline by the Viennese art historian Ernst Diez. In: Ruth Heftrig, Olaf Peters, Barbara Schellewald (eds.): Art history in the “Third Reich” . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004448-4 , pp. 123-131.
personal data
SURNAME Diez, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian specializing in Islamic art
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Lölling , Austria
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1961
Place of death Vienna