Hubert Janitschek (30 October 1846 – 21 June 1893) was an Austrian-German art historian. Janitschek was born in

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. From 1868 to 1873 he studied history and philosophy at the

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, 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 at the

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(1878). Successively, he was a professor of art history at the universities of

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(from 1879), Strasbourg (from 1881) and

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(from 1891).Janitscharenmusik – Jankau
Brockhaus Konversationslexikon In 1890 he created the terms "

Ottonian art Ottonian art is a style in pre-romanesque German art, covering also some works from the Low Countries, northern Italy and eastern France. It was named by the art historian Hubert Janitschek after the Ottonian dynasty which ruled Germany and nort ...

" and "Ottonian painting". Among his students were

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and

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. In 1882 he married the writer Maria Tölk (1859–1927). He died in 1893 in Leipzig.

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.

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Dictionary of Art Historians: Janitschek, Hubert
{{DEFAULTSORT:Janitschek, Hubert 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

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