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Jewish students in Strzygowski’s Vienna Institute and the study of Jewish art: a forgotten chapter in the history of the Vienna School

Young, Michael (2023) Jewish students in Strzygowski’s Vienna Institute and the study of Jewish art: a forgotten chapter in the history of the Vienna School. Journal of Art Historiography (29s2). ISSN 2042-4752

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Identification Number/DOI: 10.48352/uobxjah.00004317

Abstract

Josef Strzygowski, inscribed in the annals of art history as a racialist and an anti-semite, had many devoted Jewish students. Strzygowski cast a long shadow over many of the earliest specimens of Jewish art history in Vienna. In an unpublished article written in English, and in the Beurteilungen of the Jewish-themed dissertations he supervised, Strzygowski stressed the importance of Jewish art historians studying Jewish art. The forgotten, mostly unpublished efforts of these Jewish art historians working on Jewish topics form a counterpart to the better-known contemporary works of Jewish art history produced in Berlin. This study examines the work of four Jewish doctorandi of Strzygowski, Max Eisler, Otto Schneid, Paul Koeser and Friedricke Nobl-Stern and considers the interplay between anti-semitism, Zionism and entrenched beliefs in the connection between ethnicity or nationality and art during a fateful period for Vienna and for the Jews of Europe.

Type of Work:Article
School/Faculty:Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law
Department:Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
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Date:December 2023
Keywords:Josef Strzygowski, Jewish art historians, Max Eisler, Otto Schneid, Paul Koeser, Friedricke Nobl-Stern
Subjects:N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
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