!!!Riegl, Alois

Riegl, Alois, b. Linz (Upper Austria), Jan. 14, 1858, 
d. Vienna, June 17, 1905, art historian. 1886-1897 Austrian Museum for 
Art and Industry, from 1897 professor at the University of Vienna, 
co-founder of the Vienna School of Art History. His special 
significance for art theory and methodology lies in the fact that he 
regarded art without any fixed aesthetic value judgement 
(re-evaluation of periods that were previously regarded as less 
important such as the late Graeco-Roman period, the early Middle Ages, 
the Baroque) and in his idea of a continuous development of the desire 
to create art as the main impulse for artistic production. Was also 
particularly dedicated to the preservation of monuments in Austria and 
drafted legislation on the preservation of historical monuments 1905.

!Works
Stilfragen, 1893; Die spaetroem. Kunstind. nach den Funden in 
Oe., 2 vols., 1901/1923; Das hollaend. Gruppenportraet, 1902; Der 
moderne Denkmalkultus, 1903; Die Entstehung der Barockkunst in Rom, 
1908; Hist. Grammatik der bild. Kuenste, (posthumously) ed. by 
K. M. Swoboda and O. Paecht, 1966.

!Literature
W. Kemp, A. R., in: Altmeister moderner 
Kunstgeschichte, ed. by H. Dilly, 1990; M. Iversen, A. R.: Art 
History and Theory, 1993; OeBL.



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