We cordially invite you to the conference
The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History II:
The 100th Anniversary of Max Dvořák’s Death which takes place on 15-16 April 2021 online.

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.

The languages of the conference will be German and English.

The conference is held online on Zoom. Registration will take place via e-mail: murarudu.cas.cz. Unregistered participants will be able to watch the conference online on Facebook of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

PROGRAMME
15 April 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 Dvořák 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

Plenary Lecture
10:45–11:45 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 April 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 Dvořák’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 Dvořák 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
Dvořák’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 Dvořák’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