Rudolf Distelberger

Rudolf Distelberger (* 1937 in Steinakirchen am Forst ; † July 31, 2011 ) was an Austrian art historian .

Life

Rudolf Distelberger studied art history and classical archeology in Vienna and Rome , receiving his doctorate in Vienna in 1967. From 1963 to 1970 he worked at the Federal Monuments Office . From 1971 he worked as a curator in the Kunstkammer and the ecclesiastical and secular treasury at the Kunsthistorisches Museum and was director of these collections from 2000 to the end of 2002. Distelberger was an expert on the technology and history of stone cutting and goldsmithing.

Studies of baroque room and ceiling decoration in central Italy to Pietro da Cortona . Dissertation University of Vienna 1967.
with others: Prince Karl I of Liechtenstein, court and collecting activity. Böhlau, Vienna 1983.
The art of stone carving. Ornamental vessels, cameos and commessi from the Kunstkammer. Wilfried Seipel (Ed.), Exhibition December 2002 to April 2003, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2002.
Contribution in: Rosemarie Lierke: Die Hedwigsbecher. The Norman-Sicilian legacy of the Hohenstaufen emperors. Ruhpolding, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-06028-8 .
with Manfred Leithe-Jasper: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Volume 1. The Treasury. 5th updated edition, Verlag CH Beck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59178-5 .
Contribution in: Sabine Haag , Cornelia Holzach (eds.), Further contributions by Paulus Rainer, Thomas Kuster: Glanz der Macht. Imperial treasures from the Vienna Art Chamber. Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-85256-558-3 .

KHM General Director on the death of Dr. RudolfDistelberger August 3, 2011
Rudolf Distelberger, Vienna Central Institute for Art History, Werner Hauger Prize, November 24, 2004