Society for Comparative Art Research
The Society for Comparative Art Research is an Austrian association.
The association regularly offers lectures, excursions and discussions about art and publishes the communications of the Society for Comparative Art Research as an art historical journal.
history
The association was founded on February 4, 1934 by the art historian Josef Strzygowski (1862-1941), when Strzygowski resigned from the teaching post and his institute was dissolved, around the chairs (1st and 2nd Art History Institute) of the Institute for Art History of the University of Vienna back together into one. Strzygowski headed the company until the end of his life in 1941. The first publication of the society was the 11th issue of the articles on comparative art research, which had previously been published by the 1st Art History Institute of the University of Vienna. Karl Ginhart (1888–1971), the second president of the society, wanted to publish a comprehensive art history of Austria in five volumes ( Fine Arts in Austria ). However, only two volumes have been published (Richard Kurt Donin, Von der Urzeit bis zur Romanik 1944 and Die Gotik 1955).
Richard Kurt Donin took over the management of the society from 1945 to 1963 with a focus on research into Austrian art. Rupert Feuchtmüller The Late Gothic Architecture and Anton Pilgram appeared in 1951 as a publication of the society. With the Donin as president, the society's audience expanded from being purely art-historical to art-historical.
Under the presidency of Josef Zykan (1901–1971), the former provincial curator of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, the society re-established closer ties to the Institute of Art History. From autumn 1963 to 2008 the lectures were given at the University's Institute of Art History, from 1964 together with the Art History Society . In the 1960s, at the suggestion of Renate Wagner-Rieger (1921–1980), the messages were rededicated at short notice in favor of a 1963 bibliography of the history of art in Austria.
In 1971 Rupert Feuchtmüller (1920–2010) took over the chairmanship of the association. Due to his poor health and the death of Renate Wagner-Rieger, the company was managed on an interim basis from 1980 to 1982, with the workload mainly being on Marlene Strauss-Zykan , the head of the export department of the Federal Monuments Office. In the course of an amendment to the statutes in 1982, the management of the company was divided into the president and (executive) general secretary. From 1982 to 1989 Walter Koschatzky (1921–2003), former director of the Albertina Collection of Prints and Drawings , was president and Walter Krause, professor at the Institute of Art History, from 1982 to 2008 general secretary. After several years of vacancy, Waltraud Neuwirth , former head of the glass and ceramics collections at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, was President from 1993 to 2010 and Paul Mahringer, Federal Monuments Office, General Secretary in 2008. Editing of the communications has been the responsibility of Eckhart Vancsa, the former head of the Institute for Austrian Art Research at the Federal Monuments Office, since 1982. Since 2008, the events have no longer taken place at the institute together with the Art History Society . Veronika Kreuzberg-Birke, former Deputy Director of the Albertina, has been President since 2011.
Publications
Since 1948, the communications of the Society for Comparative Art Research , the Society's publication organ , have been published at regular intervals . The magazine contains short articles from all areas of art history.
President
- 1934–1941: Josef Strzygowski
- 1941–1945: Karl Ginhart
- 1945–1963: Richard Kurt Donin
- 1963–1971: Josef Zykan
- 1971–1980: Rupert Feuchtmüller
- 1982–1989: Walter Koschatzky
- 1993–2010: Waltraud Neuwirth
- since 2011: Veronika Kreuzberg-Birke