Rudolf Eitelberger a Moritz Thausing : dva zakladatelé Vídeňské školy dějin umění
| Title in English | Rudolf Eitelberger and Moritz Thausing : two founders of Vienna School of Art History |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Zprávy památkové péče : časopis státní památkové péče |
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| Keywords | Rudolf Eitelberger von Edelberg; Moritz Thausing; Art History |
| Description | The contribution deals with Rudolf Eitelberger as an art historian and compares his methodological approach with the work of Moritz Thausin, his pupil and at the same time the founder of a different, scientifically oriented Art history. When characterizing Eitelbergers significance, we can note several features: (a) in his first journal essays in the second half of the 1860s, he repeatedly used the word "orientation". His aim was to convey his knowledge of the new discipline, the terminology that should be used correctly and to mutual relationship of historical and the contemporary art. (b) The motivation that accompanied Eitelbergers art-historical work was his pan-Austrian patriotism. For him, a pragmatic sanction remained the basic law that ranked above the parliamentary and national system. The other side of the same coin was Eitelbergers defence of regional "provincialism", with its maintained system of tradition and its values, against a nationally motivated "federalism", whixh he feared on the other hand. (c) He sought the role of art history not only in scholarly work, but also understood it as a precondition for protecting culture and restoring the contemporary nature of art. He also unerstood the theory of art in a similar manner. For him, writing theory of art meant, above all, working with historical sources in art history and, on this basis, offering a theoretical "orientation" to the craators of contemporary art (to which he also logically included applied art). |
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