Michael Viktor Black
Michael Viktor Schwarz (born December 9, 1956 in Heilbronn ) is a German art historian and university professor.
Life
Michael Viktor Schwarz received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Mainz . After a short period as an assistant at the University of Freiburg , he received a research grant from the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. In 1991 he completed his habilitation at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . From 1992 to 1998, Schwarz was a professor at the University of Trier . In 1998 he took over a newly created chair at the Technical University of Dresden , but in the same year he moved to the University of Vienna , where he succeeded Gerhard Schmidt as full professor .
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Vienna Institute for Art History, Schwarz conceived an international conference in 2002 that shed light on positions of the traditional " Viennese School of Art History " in the past and present. As head of the institute (2000–2004) he pushed for the establishment of an image database , which went online in 2005 under the name "UNIDAM" and is now one of the largest art historical databases. During his tenure as dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies (2006–2012), it was possible to set up a chair for Islamic art history at the Institute for Art History.
Focus of work
Michael Viktor Schwarz dedicates his research and teaching activities primarily to the history of art in the Middle Ages on both sides of the Alps and the function of visual media in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. The Gothic sculpture and the work of the painter Giotto di Bondone form a particular focus . In recent years, Schwarz has been working increasingly on book illumination as part of the research group at the Otto Pächt Archive. Methodological work applies to the theory of style and the premodern image.
Fonts
Books
- Courtly sculpture in the 14th century. Development phases and communication channels in the run-up to the Soft Style. Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1986 (dissertation).
- Philippe Soupault on Max Beckmann. Beckmann and Surrealism (sources on art) , Rombach, Freiburg 1996.
- with Birgit Schwarz: Dix and Beckmann. Style as an option and fate . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1996.
- The mosaics of the Baptistery in Florence. Three studies on Florentine art history , Böhlau, Cologne 1997.
- Visual media in the Christian cult. Case studies from the 13th to 16th centuries , Böhlau, Vienna 2002.
- with Pia Theis: Giottus Pictor I: Giottos Leben. With a collection of documents and texts up to Vasari . Böhlau, Vienna 2004.
- Giottus Pictor II: Giotto's works (employee: Michaela Zöschg), Böhlau, Vienna 2008.
- Giotto , CH Beck, Munich 2009.
Editing
- Tombs of the Luxembourgers. Image and memoria of an imperial family , Luxembourg: Cludem 1997.
- with Wilhelm Maier and Wolfgang Schmid: Gravestones. Trends in research using examples from the Middle Ages and early modern times . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2000.
- with Heidrun Rosenberg: Vienna 1365. A university is born , exhibition catalog ÖNB, Brandstätter, Vienna 2015.
Articles (selection)
- An early medieval redesign of the Pantheon vestibule , In: Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 26, 1990, pp. 1–29.
- On the Construction of Reality and Imagery in Jan van Eyck and Woody Allen , In: Artibus et Historiae 49, 2004, pp. 19-31.
- Overpainting and Remakes: Style as a Medium , in: Questions of Style on Medieval Art . Reimer, Berlin 2006, pp. 187-204.
- Poesia e verità: a biographia critica di Giotto , in: Giotto e il Trecento: "Il più Sovrano Maestro stato in dipintura" . Exhibition catalog Rome. Skira, Milan 2009, pp. 9-29.
- Padua, its Arena and the Arena Chapel: a liturgical ensemble , in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 10, 2010, pp. 39-64.
- Gold reason in the Middle Ages: "Don't ask for the meaning, ask for the use!" , in: gold . Exhibition catalog Vienna, Belvedere. Hirmer, Munich 2011, pp. 29–37.
- Figure of Memory and Figure of the Past. Giotto's Double Life - With a Side-Glance at Joseph Beuys , in: Studies of Art History 46: "The Challenges of Biographical Research in Art History of Today", Helsinki 2013, pp. 14-23.
- Ubi Pictor ibi Roma: local color and modern form in Stefaneschi's Codice di San Giorgio , in: Paths to the illuminated book. Production conditions for book illumination in the Middle Ages and early modern times . Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2014, pp. 105–124.
Web links
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 | |
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| SURNAME | Black, Michael Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |