Hubert Janitschek (30 October 1846 – 21 June 1893) was an Austrian-German
art historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
. Janitschek was born in
Troppau,
Silesia.
From 1868 to 1873 he studied history and philosophy at the
University of Graz, followed by several years study of art history in Italy (1873–77). From 1877 to 1879 he worked in the
Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, and in the meantime obtained his
habilitation
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at the
University of Vienna (1878). Successively, he was a professor of art history at the universities of
Prague (from 1879),
Strasbourg
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(from 1881) and
Leipzig (from 1891).
Janitscharenmusik – Jankau
Brockhaus Konversationslexikon
In 1890 he created the terms " Ottonian art" and "Ottonian painting". Among his students were Georg Dehio
Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 in Reval (now Tallinn), Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 21 March 1932 in Tübingen), was a Baltic German art historian.
In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgesc ...
, Aby Warburg, Paul Clemen
Paul Clemen (31 October 1866 – 8 July 1947) was a German art historian known in particular for his large inventory of monuments in the Rhineland area, many of which were destroyed or severely damaged in World War II.
Clemen was born in Leip ...
and Wilhelm Vöge. In 1882 he married the writer Maria Tölk (1859–1927). He died in 1893 in Leipzig.
Further reading
*''Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: Zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten''. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 190–192.
Select writings
*''Leone Battista Albertis kleinere kunsttheoretische Schriften''. Vienna: W. Braumüller, 1877.
*''Die Gesellschaft der Renaissance in Italien und die Kunst''. Stuttgart: W. Spemann, 1879.
*"Zwei Studien zur Geschichte der karolingischen Malerei." In ''Strassburger Festgruss an Anton Springer zum 4. Mai 1885''. Stuttgart: Spemann, 1885, pp. 1–30.
*''Die Geschichte der deutschen Malerei''. 5 vols. Berlin: Grote, 1887-1890.
*''Die Kunstlehre Dantes and Giottos Kunst''. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1892.
References
External links
Dictionary of Art Historians: Janitschek, Hubert
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1846 births
1893 deaths
German art historians
People from Opava
Charles University faculty
University of Graz alumni
University of Strasbourg faculty
Leipzig University faculty
German male non-fiction writers