Rudolf Eitelberger
Rudolf Eitelberger , Ritter von Edelberg (born April 17, 1817 in Olmütz , † April 18, 1885 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art historian and first professor of art history at the University of Vienna .
Rudolf Eitelberger studied law in Olomouc and then classical philology and art history in Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in 1838. phil. PhD. He then worked as an assistant at the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Vienna. He completed his habilitation in 1847 as the first lecturer in art history and became an associate professor in 1852 and a full professor of art history in 1864.
In addition, he was the initiator and first director of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry , founded in 1864, as well as the affiliated arts and crafts school , founded in 1868.
From 1871 onwards Eitelberger published the sources for art history and art technology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , and in 1872 he organized the first international art historians' congress in Vienna.
Eitelberger united in his person science, cultural politics and art criticism of historicism . As an art historian, he published the "Sources for Art History" and is considered the founding father of the Vienna School of Art History . The Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, which he founded, was modeled on the South Kensington Museum in London, the first arts and crafts museum on the European mainland and a model for numerous similar institutes throughout Central Europe. In addition, Eitelberger repeatedly took a position on questions of current, contemporary art from a historical perspective.
He rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 14 A, number 31). In 1894 the Eitelbergergasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named in his honor.
Fonts (selection)
- with Heinrich Ferstel : The bourgeois apartment building and the Viennese apartment building. Vienna 1860 ( digitized version ).
- The award-winning designs for expanding the inner city of Vienna. Vienna 1859.
- Collected art historical writings , 4 volumes, Vienna 1879–1884.
literature
- Dr. Rud. Eitelberger v. Edelberg †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 5th year 1885, No. 17 (April 25, 1885), p. 176 ( digitized version ).
- Eitelberger-Edelberg Rudolf von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 239 f. (Direct links on p. 239 , p. 240 ).
- Elfriede Nebel: The art educational ideas, theories and achievements of Rudolf von Eitelberger. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1981.
- Edwin Lachnit : The Vienna School of Art History and the Art of its Time. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005.
- Andreas Dobslaw: The Viennese "Sources" and their editor Rudolf Eitelberger von Edelberg. Art history and source research in the 19th century (= Viennese writings on art history and preservation of monuments, vol. 1). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06743-1 .
- Matthew Rampley: The Vienna School of Art History. Empire and the Politics of Scholarship. Pennsylvania University Press, University Park 2013.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Eitelberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- The curriculum vitae and works of Rudolf Eitelberger ( memento from November 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the ARIADNE project Women in Movement of the Austrian National Library
- Rudolf Eitelberger at arthistoricum.net - digitized works in the topic portal History of Art History
- Eitelberger von Edelberg, Rudolf in the Dictionary of Art Historians
- Entry on Rudolf Eitelberger 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 | Eitelberger, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1885 |
| Place of death | Vienna |