Alois Riegl
Alois Riegl, born 14 January 1858 in Linz and died on 17 June 1905 in Vienna , is an art historian Austrian , author of translated into French under the title
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Training
Riegl was educated in Vienna. He followed in particular courses in philosophy and history of Franz Brentano , Alexius Meinong , Max Budinger and Robert Zimmerman. He is considered a founding member of the First School of Vienna with Franz Wickhoff. They will be followed in particular by Max Dvorak , Julius von Schlosser , and Otto Pacht.
Career
1886 - 1897: the Conservative sterreichischen Museum fr Kunst und Industrie (Vienna Museum). 1897: Professor at the University of Vienna. 1903: publication of the modern cult of monuments, while Alois Riegl chaired a commssion on historical monuments.
The modern cult of monuments
In 1902, he accepted a mission of the Central Committee of Historical Monuments Austrian protection of historical monuments. The report back is that it consists of three parts:
- The first part is a study epistemological on the monument. This part was published in 1903 in part under the title Der DenkmalKultus modern, breast Wesen, seine Entstehung and translated into French under the title The modern cult of monuments;
- the second is legislative, that is the equivalent of the French law of 31 December 1913 on the historic buildings, supported on the first part;
- the third is technical and concerns the action.
Fundamental work in art history, but especially in catering, the modern cult of monuments offers a matrix of values and sub-values to analyze the monuments. This grid is based on the notion of new Kunstwollen, "want of art."
Bibliographical Overview
- Style matters. Foundations for a history of ornament, (1893), French translation: 2002.
- The art industry of the late Roman period, (1901), French translation: 2000.
- Das Hollndische Gruppenportrait, (1902).
- The origin of Baroque art in Rome (1908), French translation: 1993.
- Historical grammar of the visual arts, French translation: 1978.
- Henri Zerner, "The art history of Alois Riegl: formalism tactics," in Writing the History of Art. Figures discipline, Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
- Riegl, Alois & Jacques Boulet. 1984. The modern cult of monuments. Its nature, origin. Paris-Villemin: School of Architecture (in extenso, 3). ISBN 2-905222-02-6.
- Riegl, Alois. The modern cult of monuments. Its essence and genesis Internal Links
External Links
- (En) Bibliography. Jacob Burckhardt Meyer Schapiro , eds. by Sophie Triquet, Philippe Bordes and Sarah Linford, Paris, 2009, p. 11-14.
- (In) Bio-bibliography in the Dictionary of Art Historians, ed. by Lee Daniels and Monique Sorensen, et al., Durham (NC), c. 2000.
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