Max Dvorák
Encyclopedia
Max Dvořák was a Czech-born Austria
n art historian
. He is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History
.
In 1921, fellow Austrian Adolf Loos
completed a mausoleum
project in Dvořák's name.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n art historian
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
. He is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History
Vienna School of Art History
The Vienna School of Art History is a collective term used to describe the development of fundamental art-historical methods at the University of Vienna...
.
In 1921, fellow Austrian Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was a Moravian-born Austro-Hungarian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau...
completed a mausoleum
Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...
project in Dvořák's name.
Works
- Idealismus und Naturalismus in der gothischen Skulptur und Malerei (1918)
- Das Rätsel der Kunst der Brüder van Eyck (1904)
- Kunstgeschichte als Geistesgeschichte (1924)
- Geschichte der italienischen Kunst im Zeitalter der Renaissance, 2 Vol. (1927-28)
- Gesammelte Aufsätze (1929)
- Die Gemälde Peter Bruegels des Alteren. Wien,. Schroll, 1942,. in-4°,
External links
- Dvořák, Max. in the Dictionary of Art Historians, Lee Sorensen, ed.
- Hans H. Aurenhammer, ‘Max Dvořák and the History of Medieval Art’ Journal of Art Historiography Number 2 June 2010