Mario Black

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Mario Schwarz (born July 16, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian .

Life

Mario Schwarz is the son of Anton Theodor Schwarz and Maria Schwarz, née Bellella. Both parents worked as a painter and graphic artist, on his mother's side he is the heir to a traditional Viennese chimney sweep company.

After attending elementary school in Vienna-Neubau and the Bundesrealgymnasium Vienna VIII, Albertgasse (1955–1963), Schwarz passed the final exams in 1963 . From 1963 he attended the Technical University of Vienna and studied architecture, from 1967/1968 also art history and classical archeology at the University of Vienna . He did his doctorate in art history with Renate Wagner-Rieger and Gerhard Schmidt with the thesis Studies on Monastery Architecture in Austria under the last Babenbergers and received his doctorate in 1975 as Dr. phil.

From 1980 to 1983 he worked as a university lecturer at the Institute for Architecture, Monument Preservation and Art History at the Vienna University of Technology, and in 1984 he qualified as a university lecturer for medieval building research at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna. In addition to his teaching activities at the University of Vienna, Schwarz also read from 1987 to 1996 at the Institute for Art History at the University of Graz and at the Institute for Architecture, Monument Preservation and Art History at the Technical University of Vienna. From 1993 onwards he lectured abroad at the Comenius University in Bratislava, at the Charles University in Prague, at the University of Palermo and at the Università Europea di Roma. Lectures in symposia in Heidelberg, Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Paris (Sorbonne), Székesfehérvár, Uppsala and Zurich.

In 1993 he was awarded the professional title of Associate University Professor. In 1999 and 2003, Schwarz was elected a member of the Egyptian Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . The commemorative publication building research and monument preservation was dedicated to him on his 70th birthday .

Awards

2020: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class.

research

From 1968 to 1972 Schwarz took part in research expeditions and archaeological excavations in Turkey , from 1976 to 1982 in the restoration project "Tomb of Ankh'Hor in Thebes-West (Egypt)" and in the excavations in Tell el-Dab'a (Egypt), in 1988 at excavations in Abu Fana (Egypt). Schwarz was and is also the head of numerous research projects, about 1992–1994 on the subject of “Computer-Aided Architectural Representation”, 1995–1996 on the subject of “the artistic work of Carl Auböck (1900-1957)” and 1996–1998 “Studies on the architecture of the 13th Century in Austria. ”The rock carvings from Sayala, the villa architecture of the turn of the century at Semmering, the historical building stock in the cellars of the inner city of Vienna and the medieval building history of the Vienna Hofburg are part of his work as project manager.

Larger publications (books and parts of books), selection

  • Romanesque architecture in Lower Austria. (Scientific publication series Lower Austria, Vol. 17/18). St. Pölten / Vienna 1976.
  • Gothic architecture in Lower Austria (Scientific publication series Lower Austria, Vol. 49/50). St. Pölten / Vienna 1980.
  • Building research in Selge. (together with Alois Machatschek ). Supplementary volumes to the Tituli Asiae Minoris No. 9 (Memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Phil.-Hist. Class, 152. Bd.), Vienna 1981.
  • Architecture of Classicism and Romanticism in Lower Austria. (Scientific publication series Lower Austria, Vol. 62/63). St. Pölten / Vienna 1982.
  • Development tendencies in villa architecture of the Wilhelminian era in Lower Austria. In: Country house and villa in Lower Austria 1840–1914. Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1982, pp. 70–88.
  • Country house architecture using the example of Reichenau. In: Landhaus und Villa in Niederösterreich 1840-1914 , Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1982, pp. 89–99.
  • The stylistic situation in villa construction at the turn of the century. In: Country house and villa in Lower Austria 1840–1914. Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1982, pp. 115-133.
  • The villas of the Wilhelminian era as a monument conservation problem. In: Country house and villa in Lower Austria 1840–1914. Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1982, pp. 134–145.
  • Summer resort architecture. (together with Eva Pusch, with an essay by Wolfgang Kos ). St. Pölten / Vienna 1995.
  • Nag el-Sheima. A fortified Christian settlement and other Christian monuments in Sayala Nubia. (together with Manfred Bietak ). Reports of the Austrian National Committee of the UNESCO Action for the Rescue of Nubian Antiquities, Vol. 8 (Memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Phil.-Hist. Class, Volume 191, Vienna 1987.
  • Nag el-Sheima. A fortified Christian settlement and other Christian monuments in Sayala Nubia. Part II: The excavation results from the point of view of recent research. Reports of the Austrian National Committee of the UNESCO Action for the Rescue of Nubian Antiquities, Vol. 9. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Phil.-Hist. Class, Memoranda, Volume 255), Vienna 1998.
  • The architecture in the duchies of Austria and Styria under the two last Babenberg dukes. In: History of Fine Arts in Austria , Vol. 1: Early and High Middle Ages. Edited by Hermann Fillitz. Munich / New York 1998, pp. 274-282, cat. Nos. 39, 40, 44, 47, 49, 50, 53, 55, 57-72, 74-84, 86-95.
  • The development of architecture between 1250 and 1300. In: History of the fine arts in Austria , Vol. 2: Gothic. Edited by Günter Brucher. Munich / New York 2000, pp. 195-216, cat. No. 1-14.
  • 101 restorations in Vienna. Work of the Vienna Old Town Conservation Fund 1990–1999. [together with Manfred Wehdorn with the assistance of Monika Keplinger and Kurt Heiss], Vienna 2000.
  • The architecture of the 13th century in Austria. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2013.
  • The Capella Speciosa in Klosterneuburg. Part 1: Studies on a computer-aided reconstruction of the Palatine Chapel of Duke Leopold VI. from Austria. Vienna 2013.
  • Architectural drafts and architectural projects by Camillo Sitte. In: Klaus Semsroth, Michael Mönninger, Christiane Crasemann Collins: Camillo Sitte Complete Edition. Fonts and projects. Vol. 6: Drafts and urban development projects. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2014, pp. 13–278.
  • The Vienna Hofburg in the Middle Ages. From the fort to the beginnings of the imperial residence. Vienna 2015.

In addition, Schwarz wrote well over 150 smaller texts (articles, catalog articles, reviews) and acted as an editor of academic works.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Buchinger , Friedmund Hueber (ed.): Building research and preservation of monuments, commemorative publication for Mario Schwarz. Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-20579677-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Black, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna