Eva Frodl-Kraft

Eva Frodl-Kraft (born September 29, 1916 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † May 1, 2011 there ) was an Austrian art historian and monument conservator . She was an expert in medieval stained glass .

Life

Victor Kraft's daughter studied history and art history at the University of Vienna and also trained as a photographer. In 1944/55 she documented all the works of art that had been hidden there in the Altaussee salt mine for the Austrian Federal Monuments Office. From 1972 to 1979 she was head of the Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office (BDA) and made the Dehio, originally intended as an art guide, the basic inventory for the development of the Austrian monument inventory.

In 1973 she completed her habilitation at the University of Vienna. In 1979 she was appointed corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Frodl-Kraft was a founding member and president of the international Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi . She contributed to the research and maintenance of the art genre of medieval stained glass.

Her husband Walter Frodl was President of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office from 1965 to 1970.

Eva Frodl-Kraft was buried in her father's grave at the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Awards

• 1981 City of Vienna Prize for the Humanities
• 1986 Wilhelm Hartel Prize from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1993 Science Prize of the State of Lower Austria

Publications

• The medieval stained glass in Vienna. Böhlau, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1962 ( Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi , Austria. Vol. 1).
• Gothic stained glass from the cloister in Klosterneuburg. Klosterneuburger Buch- und Kunstverlag, Klosterneuburg 1963 ( Klosterneuburger Kunstschätze. Vol. 3).
• The problem of black solder securing on medieval glass paintings, theoretical possibilities and practical preparatory work. Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office, Vienna 1963.
• Glass painting: development, technology, individuality. Schroll, Vienna / Munich 1970.
• The medieval stained glass in Lower Austria. Part 1: Albrechtsberg to Klosterneuburg. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1972 ( Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Austria. Vol. 2.1).
• Endangered heritage: Austria's monument protection and preservation 1918–1945 in the prism of contemporary history. Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98757-8 .
• The picture windows of the Georgskapelle in the castle of Wiener Neustadt. Federal Ministry for National Defense, Vienna (2003).

literature

• Sabine Plakolm-Forstgruber +: Frodl-Kraft, Eva. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 211-215.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Frodl-Kraft in the catalog of the German National Library
• Univ. Prof. Dr. Eva Frodl-Kraft, 1916–2011 on the website of the Federal Monuments Office