The Influence of the Vienna School II

The Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences would like to invite you to an international conference, regarding the influence of the Vienna School of Art History. The on-line conference is going to be held on the occassion of the 100th of Max Dvořák’s death.

The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History II: The 100th Anniversary of Max Dvořák’s Death

Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague

International conference (on-line)
15–16th April 2021

The year 2021 will mark 100 years since the death of the Czech-born Viennese art historian Max Dvořák (1874–1921). After he moved from the university in Prague to Vienna University in 1894, he went on to become one of the most eminent art historians in early 20th-century Central and Eastern Europe, transforming the method of the Vienna School of Art History when the region was at the start of a new political order, and with an influence on art history comparable to that of his contemporaries Aby Warburg or Heinrich Wölfflin. He became an associate professor at the University of Vienna in 1905 and a full professor in 1909. Researching the influence of his thinking on art history a century after his premature death is therefore crucial in order to obtain a better understanding of the Central and Eastern European art-historical phenomenon known as the Vienna School of Art History.

Due to the epidemic situation, the conference will take place online.

The languages of the conference will be German and English. The conference papers will be collected and published in the Journal of Art Historiography, as were the papers of the previous conference held in 2019 and titled ‘The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History before and after 1918‘, see Issue No. 21/2019.

The plenary lecture will be delivered by
Prof. Dr. Hans Aurenhammer (Institute of Art History, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Conference Program

15. 4. 2021

9:00–9:30

Zoom log in

9:30–9:35

Tomáš Winter (Director of the Institute of Art History of Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Opening of the Conference

9:35–9:40

Tomáš Hlobil and Tomáš Murár (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Remarks by the Organizers of the Conference

SESSION 1

9:45–10:05

Csilla Markója (Research Center for Humanities ELKH, Institute for Art History, Budapest)

Everyday life in the Dvorak seminar based on contemporary sources

10:05–10:25

Marek Krejčí (Center for Slavic Art Studies, Prague)

The Final Months of Max Dvořák and His Early Afterlife

10:25–10:35

Panel Discussion

10:45–11:45

PLENARY LECTURE

Hans Aurenhammer (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

Max Dvořák’s Renaissance

Discussion

11:45–12:45 Lunch break

SESSION 2

12:45–13:05

Ivan Gerát (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)

Max Dvořák on Temporality of the Concept of Art

13:05–13:25

Barbara Czwik (Independent, Vienna)

Max Dvořák, Karl Mannheim – Rudolf Carnap und die Diskussion um „Weltanschauung“ versus „Weltauffassung“

13:25–13:45

Marian Zervan (Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava)

Max Dvořáks methodologisches Porträt von Ján Bakoš

13:45–13:55

Panel Discussion

SESSION 3

14:00–14:20

Matthew Rampley (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

The Search for Spirit and the Late Writings of Max Dvořák

14:20–14:40

Gaia Schlegel (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio/Lugano)

Competing images: Expectations, possibilities, and ideology in art historical illustrated publications by Max Dvořak and his contemporaries (e.g. J. Hlávka, J.S. Zubrzycki, A. Springer, G. Dehio)

14:40–15:00

Benjamin Binstock (The Cooper Union, New York)

Max Dvořák, the Riddle of the Van Eycks, and The Ghent Altarpiece

15:00–15:10

Panel Discussion

SESSION 4

15:15–15:35

Michael Young (University of Connecticut, Storrs)

Borromini, Max Dvořák and the Vienna School

15:35–15:55

Wojciech Bałus (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

Max Dvořák und das Geistige in der (christlichen) Architektur

15:55–16:15

Rostislav Švácha (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Max Dvořák on the Relationship of the Modern Architecture to the Monument Conservation

16:15–16:35

Martin Horáček (Palacký University, Olomouc)

Max Dvořák: Catechism of Conservation for the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries?

16:35–16:50

Panel Discussion

16. 4. 2021

SESSION 5

8:30–9:00

Zoom log in

9:00–9:20

Tomáš Murár (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Max Dvořák’s Michelangelo and its actualizations in the early 1940s

9:20–9:40

Stepan Vaneyan (Moscow State University, Moscow)

“Max Dvořák’s Legacy” by Hans Sedlmayr: a Revision as Self-Justification?

9:40–10:00

Mariana Levytska (National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Lvov)

Studies of the Rococo religious art: from Max Dvorak’s Geistesgeschichte to Hans Sedlmayr’s notions and idea of Gesamtkunstwerk

10:00–10:10

Panel Discussion

SESSION 6

10:15–10:35

Katja Mahnič (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana):

Max Dvořak and Founding of the “Ljubljana School of Art History”

10:35–10:55

Vesna Krmelj (France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana) – Barbara Murovec (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich):

Dvořak’s Ljubljana students Izidor Cankar and France Stele

10:55–11:15

Rebeka Vidrih (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana):

The Extent and the Course of Izidor Cankar’s »Evolution of Style«

11:15–11:25

Panel Discussion

11:25–12:25 Lunch Break

SESSION 7

12:25–12:45

Irena Kossowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun):

The Expressive Theory of Art: Riegl, Dvořák, and the Polish Promoters of National Art

12:45–13:05

Violet Korsakova (Jagiellonian University, Krakow):

Władysław Podlacha interpreting Dvořák’s ideas

13:05–13:25

Magdalena Kunińska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow):

‘The dignity of the art historian”: Lech Kalinowski, Jan Białostocki and a response to Max Dvořák ‘Kunstgeschichte als Geistesgeschichte’ in Poland after the Second World War

13:25–13:35

Panel Discussion

SESSION 8

13:40–14:00

Michał Haake (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań):

Max Dwořák’s thought, Szczęsny Dettloff and Polish socialist realism

14:00–14:20

Stefaniia Demchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kiev):

The Mannerist ‘revolution’, Dvořák and Soviet Art History

14:20–14:40

Milena Bartlová (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague):

Max Dvořák in the 1960s: Re-Construction of Tradition

14:40–14:50

Panel Discussion

Closure of the conference