Géza Hajós

Géza Hajós (born September 14, 1942 in Budapest ; † February 12, 2019 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art historian and garden historian of Hungarian origin.

Life

Hajós studied history and art history at the University of Budapest from 1960 to 1965 . In 1965 he moved to Austria and received his doctorate in art history at the University of Vienna in 1971 with a dissertation on the Romanesque sculptures in the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Pécs / Hungary.

At the same time, he also worked at the Federal Monuments Office in Vienna from 1965 , initially in the architecture-related monument inventory and monument research (Institute for Austrian Art Research) until 1986, where he worked on, among other things, several volumes of Austrian art topography and the Dehio manual . In 1986 he became the first head of the department, then the department for historical gardens , which was abolished after his retirement in 2007.

Hajós was a member of the founding board of the Austrian Association of Art Historians (now known as the Association of Austrian Art Historians ), from 1984 editor-in-chief of the first issues of the association's publication "Art Historians" (today's title "Art History Current"). In addition, Hajós was the initiator and decisive motor behind the founding of the Austrian Society for Historic Gardens in 1991 and its first general secretary.

From 1992 he completed his habilitation on modern art history at the University of Graz . He had lectureships at the universities of Innsbruck, Vienna and Graz and was the author of more than 200 scientific publications on historical garden architecture (with a focus on facilities of the 18th century and the Romantic period), architectural history of the 18th and 19th centuries and the theory of monument preservation . 1989–2014 he was co-editor of the garden art .

Hajós has been a member of the International Committee for Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes ( ICOMOS and IFLA ) since 1993, and on its Advisory Board since 2005. For UNESCO he prepared reports on the gardens at and around the Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy, the Kew Gardens in England and the baroque park of Schwetzingen Castle in Germany.

Géza Hajós died after a long illness in February 2019 at the age of 76 in Vienna.

Awards

Hajós was Honorary President of the Austrian Society for Historic Gardens and an honorary member of ICOMOS ' International Scientific Committee for Historic Gardens .

• 1990 Science Prize of the State of Lower Austria Promotion Prize
• 2001 Silver Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
• 2003 professional title Professor - awarded by the Federal President
• 2012 Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell Ring of Honor of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 2013 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

Publications

• List of publications : Beatrix Hajos, Eva Berger: List of publications by Iniv. Prof. Dr. Géza Hajos 1966-2007 . In: Die Gartenkunst  19 (2/2007), pp. 411–420.

• individual works:
  • Editor, with contributions from Dora Heinz , Ricarda Oettinger: Die Kirchen des III. District (in Vienna). With an introduction to the topographical development of the district. Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7031-0373-6 .
  • Schönbrunn . Baroque castle. Wiener Geschichtsbücher, Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-552-02809-9 .
  • Contributions in: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Vorarlberg . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 .
  • (Ed.): City parks in the Austrian monarchy 1765–1918. Studies on the civic development of urban green in Austria , Hungary , Croatia , Slovenia and Krakow from a European perspective. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77638-3 .
  • Romantic Gardens of the Enlightenment , Vienna, Cologne 1989
  • Historical Gardens in Austria (anthology), Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1993
  • Monument protection and the public (collection of articles) Peter Lang 2005
  • The picturesque landscape park of Laxenburg near Vienna , Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2006

literature

sorted alphabetically by author

• Eva Berger , Anette Freytag: Géza Hajós on her 65th birthday . In: Die Gartenkunst  19 (2/2007), p. 241f.
• NN: Tabula Congratulations . In: Die Gartenkunst 19 (2/2007), p. 243.
• Karl Schütz (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna): On the 65th birthday of Géza Hajós . In: Kunstgeschichte aktuell , 3/2007, p. 2.

Web links

• Literature by and about Géza Hajós in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian Society for Historical Gardens of February 15, 2019: Obituary for Géza Hajós 1942-2019. Doyen of garden monument preservation and research on garden art died , accessed on February 15, 2019
2. ↑ Committee for garden art: The department for historical gardens at the Federal Monuments Office threatens to be closed - there are good reasons for opposition. In: Der Standard online , April 15, 2010;
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