Gerhard Schmidt (art historian)
Gerhard Schmidt (born May 11, 1924 in Vienna ; † April 3, 2010 ibid) was an Austrian university professor for art history at the University of Vienna . His main focus was on the Gothic , in particular on book illumination .
Life
Schmidt was born the son of a doctor and an elementary school teacher. After working and military service as well as being an American prisoner of war, he began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1946 . In 1947 he switched to archeology and art history . In 1951 he completed his studies with a dissertation on French relief sculpture.
He completed his habilitation in 1959 with the thesis "The Poor Bibles of the XIVth Century". In 1968 he was appointed full professor at the University of Vienna (retirement 1992). From 1973 he was a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was elected a full member in 1984.
Schmidt was buried at the Heiligenstädter Friedhof in Vienna.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on the website of the University of Vienna
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 | Schmidt, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Gerhard Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 2010 |
| Place of death | Vienna |