Hermann Fillitz
Hermann Fillitz (born April 20, 1924 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian .
Fillitz was head of the Kunstkammer of the Vienna Art History Museum from 1958 to 1964, head of the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome from 1965 to 1967 , professor of art history at the University of Basel from 1967 to 1974 and, in succession to Otto Pächt, professor of art history from 1974 to 1994 of the University of Vienna . From 1982 to 1990 he was general director and head of the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where he initiated repairs and modernization.
Fillitz was an advisor to art sponsors, such as the Abegg couple with the Abegg Foundation and the Peter and Irene Ludwig couple , and thus pioneer of the Museum for Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna (initially in the Palais Liechtenstein , later in the Museum Quarter ).
Fillitz is a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Scholarship in Cracow . In 2003 he received the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art .
Publications (selection)
- Study of form and style of the German imperial crown , dissertation, Vienna 1947.
- The late phase of the Lombard style , habilitation thesis, Vienna 1959.
- Art from Austria - Romanesque Period , Art Treasures in Austria - The Romanesque Period, L'Art en Autriche - l'Epoque Romane, Actien-Gesellschaft der Vöslauer Kammgarn-Fabrik, Bad Vöslau 1961.
- Art from Austria - around 1400 , Art Treasures in Austria - around 1400, L'Art en Autriche - vers 1499, Actien-Gesellschaft der Vöslauer Kammgarn-Fabrik, Bad Vöslau 1962.
- Art from Austria - Renaissance , Art Treasures in Austria - The Renaissance, L'Art en Autriche - la Renaissance, Actien-Gesellschaft der Vöslauer Kammgarn-Fabrik, Bad Vöslau 1963.
- Art from Austria - the landscape , Art Treasures in Austria - The Landscape, L'Art en Autriche - le Paysage, Actien-Gesellschaft der Vöslauer Kammgarn-Fabrik, Bad Vöslau 1964.
- Art from Austria - Baroque , Art Treasures in Austria - The Baroque, L'Art en Autriche - le Baroque, Actien-Gesellschaft der Vöslauer Kammgarn-Fabrik, Bad Vöslau 1965.
- Catalog of the secular and spiritual treasury , guide through the KHM, Vienna 1954, 1971, also in English and French.
- The Austrian Imperial Crown and the Insignia of the Austrian Empire , Vienna 1959, 1973.
- The secular treasury in Vienna. Change and shape of a princely art collection , Ein Brevier, Braunschweig 1959.
- The Vienna Treasury , Vienna 1964.
- with E. Neumann, E. Schuselka: Collection for sculpture and applied arts of the Kunsthistorisches Museum I. part , catalog, Vienna 1964.
- with E. Neumann, E. Schuselka and E. Mahl: Collection for sculpture and applied arts of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Part II , catalog, Vienna 1966.
- Two ivory plates from southern Italy , monographs from the Abegg Foundation Bern, Bern 1967.
- The Middle Ages , Berlin 1969.
- Treasury of the German Order , catalog, Vienna 1971.
- with Karl Schwarzenberg, Erich Bachmann, Jiri Masin: Romanesque in Böhmen. History, architecture, painting, sculpture and applied arts , Prestel Verlag Munich 1977.
- with Percy Ernst Schramm in collaboration with Florentine Mütherich : Monuments of the German kings and emperors. Volume 2: A contribution to the history of rulers from Rudolf I to Maximilian I 1273–1519. Munich 1979.
- The treasury in Vienna. Symbols of occidental empire , Salzburg 1986.
- with Martina Pippal : Treasure Art: The goldsmiths and ivory works from Austrian treasuries of the High Middle Ages , Salzburg 1987.
- with Martina Pippal: The Treasure of the Order of the Golden Fleece , Salzburg 1988.
- The group of Magdeburg ivory tablets. A foundation by Emperor Otto the Great for Magdeburg Cathedral , Mainz 2001.
literature
- Martina Pippal , Rudolf Preimesberger, Florentine Mütherich , Artur Rosenauer (eds.): Festschrift for Hermann Fillitz on his 70th birthday (= Aachener Kunstblätter , Volume 60). Dumont Schauberg, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-33943 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Vienna ( Memento from December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 150 years of art history at the University of Vienna
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Fillitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Hermann Fillitz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
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 | Fillitz, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |