Hans Sedlmayr
Hans Sedlmayr (born January 18, 1896 in Hornstein , Austria-Hungary , † July 9, 1984 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian art historian .
Life
Hans Sedlmayr studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and art history at the University of Vienna .
His dissertation with Julius Schlosser deals with the baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach . He later turned to structuralism and became the spiritual successor of Alois Riegl as the founder of structural analysis in art history , which is particularly evident in his major work, The Loss of the Center , published in 1948, by looking at the works of art and art epochs in the context of their time of origin. Sedlmayr completed his habilitation in 1933 and succeeded his teacher at the Vienna chair in 1936.
Hans Sedlmayr joined the Austrian NSDAP in 1930 , of which he was a member until 1932. After Austria's “annexation” to the German Reich, Sedlmayr re-entered (with the earlier entry date of January 1, 1938 for former illegal NSDAP members). In 1942 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Because of his membership in the NSDAP , he lost his professorship for art history in 1945. In the post-war years he published under the pseudonym Hans Schwarz in memory of his best Jewish friend who was murdered in the war. In 1951 he received a call to the University of Munich again , in 1965, already retired, he became a professor at the University of Salzburg , where he founded the chair for art history. In 1965 his work The Demolierte Schönheit - A Call to Save the Old Town of Salzburg was published . On November 9, 1972, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg.
Sedlmayr is an advocate of figurative painting. The confrontation with the painter Willi Baumeister at the “first Darmstadt conversation” in 1950, during which, in addition to art historians a . a. also psychologists and architects were present. Recorded from the conversation are u. a. Statements by Theodor W. Adorno on the subject of abstract vs. figurative art . Sedlmayr was married to the former singer Maria von Schmedes .
Publications (selection)
- Fischer von Erlach the Elder . R. Piper, Munich 1925.
- Borromini's architecture . Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1930.
- To a strict art history . In: Kunstwissenschaftliche Forschungen, Volume 1, pp. 7–32.
- On the concept of structural analysis . In: Critical reports on art-historical literature, Volume 32, 1931, pp. 146–160.
- The first medieval architectural system . In: Kunstwissenschaftliche Forschungen, Volume 2, 1933, pp. 25–62.
- The 'Macchia' of Bruegel . In: Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna, NF Volume 8, 1934, pp. 137–160.
- About a medieval way of depicting . In: Critica d'arte, Volume 1, 1935/36, pp. 261-269.
- Loss of center . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1948.
- The creation of the cathedral . Zurich 1950.
- Allegory and Architecture . In: Castelli, Enrico (ed.): Retorica e Barocco. (Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi Umanistici, Venezia 15-18 giugno 1954). Rome 1955, pp. 197-207.
- The modern art revolution. Rowohlt's German Encyclopedia, Hamburg 1955.
- The front of the Karlskirche in Vienna. In: Art history studies for Hans Kauffmann , ed. v. Wolfgang Braunfels , Berlin 1956, pp. 262-271.
- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Vienna / Munich 1956. 2nd edition Vienna 1976. New edition Stuttgart 1997.
- Art and truth. On the theory and method of art history. Hamburg (Rowohlt) 1958. Increased new edition Mittenwald (Mäander) 1978, ISBN 978-3-88219-175-2 .
- Epochs and works. Collected writings on art history. 2 volumes, Vienna / Munich 1959/1960.
- The death of the light. Salzburg 1964.
- with Hermann Bauer : Rococo. Structure and essence of a European epoch . Cologne 1991/1992.
- The Collegiate Church and the Sorbonne Church. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, 120/121, Salzburg 1980/81, pp. 371–398.
- The Golden age. A childhood. Munich / Zurich 1986.
Literature (selection)
Compare also the more specific literature on “Loss of the Middle” .
- Hans H. Aurenhammer : Hans Sedlmayr and the history of art at the University of Vienna 1938–1945. In: Focus: Art History at Universities during National Socialism, ed. v. Jutta Held , Martin Papenbrock , Göttingen 2003, pp. 161–194.
- Hans H. Aurenhammer: Sedlmayr, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 126-128 ( digitized version ).
- Eva Frodl-Kraft : Hans Sedlmayr. In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 44, 1991, pp. 7–46.
- Ivan Gerat: Unwanted Freedom 'Instrumentalization of the Middle Ages in the art-historical thinking of Hans Sedlmayr. Dissertation Freiburg i. Br. 1994.
- Maria Männig: Hans Sedlmayr's art history. A critical study , Böhlau, Vienna 2016.
- Simon Morgenthaler: Formations of an art history. Text and archive studies on Hans Sedlmayr , Berlin: de Gruyter 2020 (Textologie; 8), ISBN 978-3-11-060804-5 .
- Albert Ottenbacher: Art history in its time. On Hans Sedlmayr's “occidental broadcast”. In: Kritischeberichte 29 (2001), pp. 71–86.
- Friedrich Piel : Hans Sedlmayr 1896–1984. Directory of his writings . With an obituary by Gerhard Schmidt, Salzburg / Falkenberg 1996.
- A. Prater: Revolution and Truth. Notes on Hans Sedlmayr's understanding of history. In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 45 (2000), pp. 97-109.
- Heinz Quitzsch: Loss of Art History ? A critical examination of Sedlmayr's art theory. Leipzig 1963.
- Gerhardt Schmidt: Hans Sedlmayr. In: Almanach of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1986, pp. 399–406.
- Norbert Schneider : Hans Sedlmayr (1896–1984). In: Heinrich Dilly (ed.): Old masters of modern art history. Berlin 1990, pp. 267-288.
- Marco A. Sorace: Sedlmayr, Hans. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 1261-1270.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Sedlmayr in the catalog of the German National Library
- detailed résumé ( memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Sedlmayer as full professor in Vienna ( Memento from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Thomas fence screen : Sedlmayr + Bredekamp
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans H. Aurenhammer: Sedlmayr, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 126-128 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Maria von Schmedes died at the age of 85 , Der Standard, February 26, 2003.
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 | Sedlmayr, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hornstein , Burgenland, Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1984 |
| Place of death | Salzburg , Austria |