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“i then asked myself: what ist the ‘wiener schule’” 211 Woelfflin’s. They were not built up to a climax and spiced with catching characterizations, ready to be serialized as Dvořák’s. The only highpoints were when his temperament drove him to out- bursts against a colleague with whose opinion he disagreed. When he referred to some authors’ names he would never omit to add “whom the Lord had created in his scorn”. These outbursts never failed to convince his audience of the un- shakable sincerity of their teacher. They filled us with pugnacity, a keen wish to fight, a feeling of superiority of our “Wiener Schule”. Art historians like Muther for instance, whose popular success was enormous, were rightly condemned by him, but his wrath struck also serious workers as for instance Schubring.12 When there had been dis- cussions about the attribution of a drawing in the Albertina and some experts pleaded for [...] oth- ers for an artist close to him, Wickhoff never de- clared himself for one or the other, but asserted it to be from the 18th Century, thus opposing both opinions. The outcome of his certainty to be the censor of the discipline was the creation of the “Kunstgeschichtliche Anzeigen”13. It was a maga- 1: „Das Wiener kunsthistorische Institut im Jahre 1204“. Eine ironische Collage (1904), Archiv des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien Von links nach rechts: S. Methodologius (Max Dvořák), S. Erica (Erica Tietze-Conrat) mit S. Ernestinus (Ernst Ebenstein) auf dem Arm, S. Ludovicus (Ludwig von Ficker), das „apokalyptische Tier“ (Ernst Diez) rechts oben 12 Richard Muther (1860–1909), Kunsthistoriker, Autor populärer Künstlerbiographien und Kunstführer. Paul Schub- ring (1869–1935), Kunsthistoriker und Theologe, Verfasser zahlreicher Werke zur Früh- und Hochrenaissance sowie kunstwissenschaftlicher Handbücher. 13 Die „Kunstgeschichtlichen Anzeigen“ wurden 1904 von Franz Wickhoff ins Leben gerufen und erschienen als Bei- blatt zu den „Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung“.