Johann Kräftner

Johann Kräftner (* 1951 in St. Pölten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian exhibition designer and museum director.

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Kräftner studied architecture with a focus on art history and monument conservation and received his doctorate on the Austrian community center. He also worked as a writer and photographer for the art magazine Parnass . In 1998 he took over the management of the Institute for Artistic Design at the Vienna University of Technology .

Since 2004 he has been the director of the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna and the Princely Collections in Vaduz .

Publications

• The Austrian Bürgerhaus: Types and Elements, with an excursus on the Bürgerhaus in architectural theory and art literature from the 16th to 19th centuries. Vienna, 1986, OCLC 636727916 (Dissertation TU Vienna 1986, 672 pages).

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Kräftner in the catalog of the German National Library

• "Head of the Day" ( Der Standard , March 26, 2004).
• Short biography (ORF Lower Austria) .
• Interview with Johann Kräftner on the location of the Liechtenstein Museum, in: Die Presse, November 9, 2007 ( memento of March 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).