Portrait of Wickhoff.

Franz Wickhoff (7 May 1853 – 6 April 1909) was an Austrian art historian, and is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History.

Early life

Franz Wickhoff was born on 7 May 1853 in Steyr.[1] He studied at the University of Vienna under Alexander Conze and Moritz Thausing.

Career

In 1879 he received a position at the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (today the Museum für angewandte Kunst) in Vienna, where he met Giovanni Morelli and became interested in his theories of connoisseurship. In 1882 Wickhoff began to teach at the University of Vienna.

In 1895 Wickhoff published his major work, Die Wiener Genesis, a study of the development of Roman art from the time of Augustus to that of Constantine I. The book was significant for its appreciation of both "high imperial" Roman art, and indeed also late antique art, both of which had previously, under the overwhelming influence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, been considered as stages of progressive decline following the achievements of Greek art. Wickhoff's study would prove to be of great importance for the later Spätrömische Kunstindustrie of Alois Riegl, his younger contemporary at the Museum, which continued the project of rehabilitating late antique art. It also sparked the extended feud between Riegl and Wickhoff, on the one side, and Josef Strzygowski, on the other, concerning the origins of the late antique style.

Death and legacy

Wickhoff died in Venice on 6 April 1909. His students included many of the major figures of the next generation of Viennese art history, including Max Dvořák, Walter Friedländer, Wilhelm Koehler, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Hans Tietze and Gustav Glück. He is buried in the San Michele cemetery on the Isola di San Michele in Venice.

References

  1. ↑ "Wickhoff, Franz". Dvořák, Max. "Franz Wickhoff." Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertunskunde 14 (1912): , reprinted in Dvořák. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kunstgeschichte. Ed. (posthumous) by K. M. Swoboda and Johannes Wilde. Munich: Piper, 1929: 299-314; Kircher, Paul. Deutsche Kunsthistoriker seit der Jahrhundertwende. Dissertation, Göttingen, 1948, pp. 43-47; Dvořák, Max. Idealism and Naturalism in Gothic Art. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967, pp. 236-7; Brendel, Otto. Prolegomena to the Study of Roman Art, Expanded from "Prolegomena to a Book on Roman Art". New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979, pp. 25-41; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 32; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire d l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, pp. 156-158; German Essays on Art History. Gert Schiff, ed. New York: Continuum, 1988, pp. xlii-xlv, 282; Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, pp. 160-161; Williams, Shellie, "Franz Wickhoff." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 1192-93; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 466-68; Bianchi Bandinelli, Ranuccio. "Wickhoff, Franz." Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica e orientale 7: 1218-1219. 21 February 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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