Günther Heinz
Günther Heinz (born August 10, 1927 in Salzburg , † January 14, 1992 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art historian .
Life
Günther Heinz was a son of the state medical director Walther Heinz and his wife Emilie, née Burghardt. In March 1945 he passed the school leaving examination . From 1946 he studied philosophy, classical archeology, history and art history at the University of Vienna , his professors there included Karl M. Swoboda , Alfons Lhotsky and Camillo Praschniker . In 1950 he received his doctorate in Vienna with a dissertation on the subject of "The Salzburg Painting of the 17th Century and Johann Michael Rottmayr ". From 1951 he worked as a research assistant and curator at the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, a position he held until 1974. He devoted himself primarily to the treatment of Italian and Dutch baroque painting , paying particular attention to the influences of rhetoric and contemporary literature . He also looked after the portrait collection in Ambras Castle together with Karl Schütz . Heinz completed his habilitation in 1965 at the University of Vienna with an investigation into portrait painting at the courts of the Austrian hereditary lands of the early modern period and became a tit in 1970. ao. University professor appointed. In 1974 - as successor to Otto Demus - he was appointed full professor at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna.
Despite this change in tasks, he remained closely connected to the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, a happy symbiosis in which his high level of learning was combined with many years of experience in museum practice.
It is little known that Heinz also worked as an artist himself. A selection of his surviving production - around 200 paintings and 800 drawings - was shown to the public for the first time in 2013 in a Viennese gallery in Ottakring .
From 1951 Heinz was married to the art historian Dora Bruck-Heinz (1925–2011), who worked for many years at the Museum of Applied Arts as a curator and was a well-known textile expert. The couple had three daughters.
Publications (selection)
- Introduction. In: Friderike Klauner (ed.): Peter Paul Rubens 1577–1640. Exhibition catalog, Vienna 1977, pp. 17–29.
- The picture of St. Mary Magdalene by Luca Cambiaso in the 'Galeria' of Cavaliere Giambattista Marino. In: Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna. 67, 1971, pp. 105-118.
- The share of Italian baroque painting in court art at the time of Emperor Ferdinand III. and Kaiser Leopold I .. In: Yearbook of the art historical collections in Vienna. 54, 1958, p. 173 ff.
- The origin of church baroque painting in Rome and its spread. In: Christian art sheets . 96, 1958, 3, p. 24 ff.
- The only baroque picture gallery in Vienna. In: Ancient and Modern Art. 2, 1957, 7/8, p. 20 ff.
- Baroque in Austria. In: Christliche Kunstblätter 94, 1956, 3, p. 24 ff.
- Studies on the sources of decorative painting in the Venetian Seicento . In: Arte Veneta. 10, 1956, p. 142 ff.
- Studies on the application of chiaroscuro in the works of Guido Reni . In: Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna. 51, 1955, p. 189 ff.
- Notes on the 'Mostra di Guido Reni' in Bologna. In: Communications from the Society for Comparative Art Research in Vienna. 7, 1954, p. 36 ff.
- The position of Johann Michael Rottmayr in the history of baroque painting. In: Johann Michael Rottmayr. Work and life. Memorial exhibition for the 300th birthday. Salzburg 1954, p. 15 ff.
- Studies on painting of the XVII. Century in Salzburg. In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg. 94, 1954, p. 86 ff.
literature
- Karl Schütz , Brigitte Borchardt-Birbaumer, Claus Jesina (eds.): Günther Heinz. Virtuosity versus pedantry . Edition Jesina, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902216-49-6 .
Web links
- University of Vienna - Günther Heinz, biography
- University of Vienna - Günther Heinz, Artistic and Scientific Legacy
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://permalink.obvsg.at/AC01122009
- ↑ http://permalink.obvsg.at/AC04659000
- ^ Günther Heinz. Virtuosity versus pedantry
Former chair (“Art History II”): Rudolf Eitelberger (1852–1885) | Alois Riegl (1897–1905) | Max Dvořák (1909–1921) | Julius von Schlosser (from 1922) | Hans Sedlmayr (from 1936) | Karl M. Swoboda (from 1946) | Otto Pächt (from 1963) | Hermann Fillitz (from 1974) | Hellmut Lorenz (from 1997) | Sebastian Schütze (from 2009)
Later chair (“Art History I”): Moritz Thausing (1873–1884) | Franz Wickhoff (1885–1909) | Josef Strzygowski (1909–1933) | Otto Demus (from 1963) | Günther Heinz (from 1976) | Friedrich Teja Bach (from 1994) | Sebastian Egenhofer (from 2016)
Further chairs and university professors: Otto Benesch (from 1948) | Fritz Novotny (from 1948) | Renate Wagner-Rieger (from 1964) | Gerhard Schmidt (from 1964) | Helmut Buschhausen (from 1975) | Artur Rosenauer (from 1976) | Deborah Klimburg-Salter (from 1996) | Michael Viktor Schwarz (from 1998) | Lioba Theis (from 2005) | Raphael Rosenberg (from 2009) | Julia Gelshorn (2010–2011) | Sebastian Egenhofer (2012–2013) | Markus Ritter (from 2012) | Noit Banai (from 2014) | Lukas Nickel (from 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinz, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1992 |
| Place of death | Vienna |