Jump to content

Albert Kutal: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Jan Sapák (talk | contribs)
313 edits
No edit summary
m En dash fix (via WP:JWB)
 
(18 intermediate revisions by 13 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Short description|Czech art historian}}
{{unref|date=May 2017}}{{cleanup|reason=English needs improving|date=May 2017}}'''Albert Kutal''' (Czech: [9. january 1904, [[Hranice na Moravě]] – 27. decembre 1976, [[Brno]]) was a [[Czech Republic|Czech]] art historian, [[Moravia|moravian]] descent whose objective classifying principles of central european [[Gothic sculpture|gothic sculpture]], when as one of the first to studyed and analysed medieval, mostly sacral Bohemian and Moravian art and the influence of Southern European [[Iconography|iconography]] thereon. Kutal were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. He taught at Brno, and and short time also lectured [[Paris]], [[Brussels]], [[Leuven]], [[Bonn]], [[Vienna]] and [[Graz]] in the generation that raised Czech and Moravian art history to pre-eminence. His great books, still consulted, are ''Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia'' (Czech original 1972, English 1971).<ref>[https://is.muni.cz/publication/1080797?lang=en Discovery of New Lands. The Brno Exhibition of Gothic Art of Moravia and Silesia 1935-1936 and Albert Kutal]</ref>
{{Refimprove|date=May 2017}}
{{Blacklisted-links|1=
*https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/bakos.pdf
*:''Triggered by <code>\bfiles\.wordpress\.com\b</code> on the global blacklist''|bot=Cyberbot II|invisible=false}}
'''Albert Kutal''' (9 January 1904, [[Hranice na Moravě]] – 27 December 1976, [[Brno]]<ref>[https://billiongraves.com/grave/Albert-Kutal/12849491#/ Grave information for PhDr. Albert Kutal DrSc., located in the hřbitov Brno - ústřední (The Central Cemetery), Brno], [[Moravia]] </ref>) was a [[Czech Republic|Czech]] art historian of [[Moravia]]n descent who established classifying principles of [[Central Europe]]an [[Gothic sculpture]] as one of the first to study and analyse the medieval art<ref>Albert Kutal: The Brunswick sketchbook and Czech Art of the eighties of the 14th Century
[https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/110648/F_HistoriaeArtium_05-1961-1_11.pdf?sequence=1]</ref> of Bohemia and Moravia, and the influence upon it of Southern European [[iconography]].<ref>Otto Pächt and Albert Kutal:
Methodological Parallels [https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/bakos.pdf]</ref> Kutal were influential in the development of formal analysis <ref>H U S B A N D, Timothy: A Beautiful Madonna
in the Cloisters Collection[https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3258504.pdf.bannered.pdf]</ref> in art history in the early 20th century. His magnum opus, still consulted, is ''Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia'' (published in English translation in 1971).<ref>[https://is.muni.cz/publication/1080797?lang=en Discovery of New Lands. The Brno Exhibition of Gothic Art of Moravia and Silesia 1935-1936 and Albert Kutal]</ref>

==Origins and career ==
==Origins and career ==
Kutal was born to a state [[geodesist]] František Kutal family in the predominantly catholic city of [[Hranice na Moravě]], [[Moravia]], [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (in the sub region of Záhoří, today in the Czech Republic). He received his degree from Brno University in 1923 in philosophy, although he was already on a course to study the newly minted discipline of art history. It is considered now to be one of the founding texts of the emerging discipline of art history of medieval sculpture and painting in [[Central Europe]], although it was barely noted when it was published.
Kutal was born into the family of state [[geodesist]] František Kutal in the predominantly Catholic town of [[Hranice na Moravě]], [[Moravia]], [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (in the sub-region of Záhoří, today in the Czech Republic).<ref>[http://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=10291 Personal profile The Brno encyclopedia (in Czech)]</ref> He graduated from secondary school in 1923 and went on to attend the [[Masaryk University|University of Brno]] (1923–1928), where he was a student of [[Eugen Dostál]] and wrote his dissertation on the Romanesque and Gothic sculpture in the arch of the [[Porta coeli Convent]] in [[Tišnov]], Moravia.

Biography
He taught at Brno, and briefly lectured in [[Paris]], [[Brussels]], [[Leuven]], [[Bonn]], [[Vienna]] and [[Graz]].
After gramar school his abilities allowed him to continue his education through high school – Slavic classical gymnasium, (currently known as Gymnázium Brno, třída Kapitána Jaroše), in the Moravian capital of Brno. Kutal from 1923–1928 Kutal attended the University of Brno, where he was a student of Eugen Dostál, and wrote his dissertation on the Romanesque and gothic architectural sculpture in thearch of the [[Porta coeli Convent|conventual temple in Tišnov]], in Moravia.

== Further readings ==
==Works==
*KUTAL, Albert (1971), ''Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia''. Published by London, New York, Sydney, Toronto : [[Hamlyn (publishers)|Hamlyn]], ISBN 10: 0600016587 ISBN 13: 9780600016588 <ref>[http://books.google.cz/books?id=s0zJjV2L3n0C&pg=PA384&lpg=PA384&dq=Albert+Kutal+Bibliography+in+English&source=bl&ots=c-qW9ygeDI&sig=AC-NR9Z7FR8L3Nqe3sQPfly_xwk&hl=cs&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjN1LmT7oHUAhUBHywKHWVuBeEQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=Albert%20Kutal%20Bibliography%20in%20English&f=false Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages]</ref>
*KUTAL, Albert (1959), Quelques remarques sur la sculpture gothique en Boheme. In: ''Actes du XIX. Congres international d'histoire de l'art''. Paris 1959, s. 100–104;
*"Quelques remarques sur la sculpture gothique en Boheme", in ''Actes du XIX. Congres international d'histoire de l'art'' (Paris, 1959), pp. 100–104.
*''České gotické sochařstvi, 1350–1450'' (Prague, 1962)
*"La 'Belle Madone' de Budapest" in Bulletin du Muse'e Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 23 (1963), pp.2I-40.
*''Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia'', translated by Till Gottheiner (London, 1971)

==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}
Line 12: Line 25:
{{Authority control}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kutal, Albert}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kutal, Albert}}
[[Category:1903 births]]
[[Category:1904 births]]
[[Category:1976 deaths]]
[[Category:1976 deaths]]
[[Category: Czech art historians]]
[[Category:People from Hranice (Přerov District)]]
[[Category: Art curators]]
[[Category:People from the Margraviate of Moravia]]
[[Category:People from Brno]]
[[Category:Czech art historians]]
[[Category: Masaryk University in Brno alumni]]
[[Category:European art curators]]
[[Category:20th-century historians]]
[[Category:Czechoslovak historians]]
[[Category:Masaryk University alumni]]
[[Category:Herder Prize recipients]]
[[Category:Herder Prize recipients]]


{{art-historian-stub}}
{{Europe-art-historian-stub}}

Latest revision as of 23:20, 1 May 2024

Albert Kutal (9 January 1904, Hranice na Moravě – 27 December 1976, Brno[1]) was a Czech art historian of Moravian descent who established classifying principles of Central European Gothic sculpture as one of the first to study and analyse the medieval art[2] of Bohemia and Moravia, and the influence upon it of Southern European iconography.[3] Kutal were influential in the development of formal analysis [4] in art history in the early 20th century. His magnum opus, still consulted, is Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia (published in English translation in 1971).[5]

Origins and career

[edit]

Kutal was born into the family of state geodesist František Kutal in the predominantly Catholic town of Hranice na Moravě, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (in the sub-region of Záhoří, today in the Czech Republic).[6] He graduated from secondary school in 1923 and went on to attend the University of Brno (1923–1928), where he was a student of Eugen Dostál and wrote his dissertation on the Romanesque and Gothic sculpture in the arch of the Porta coeli Convent in Tišnov, Moravia.

He taught at Brno, and briefly lectured in Paris, Brussels, Leuven, Bonn, Vienna and Graz.

Works

[edit]
  • "Quelques remarques sur la sculpture gothique en Boheme", in Actes du XIX. Congres international d'histoire de l'art (Paris, 1959), pp. 100–104.
  • České gotické sochařstvi, 1350–1450 (Prague, 1962)
  • "La 'Belle Madone' de Budapest" in Bulletin du Muse'e Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 23 (1963), pp.2I-40.
  • Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia, translated by Till Gottheiner (London, 1971)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Grave information for PhDr. Albert Kutal DrSc., located in the hřbitov Brno - ústřední (The Central Cemetery), Brno, Moravia
  2. ^ Albert Kutal: The Brunswick sketchbook and Czech Art of the eighties of the 14th Century [1]
  3. ^ Otto Pächt and Albert Kutal: Methodological Parallels [2]
  4. ^ H U S B A N D, Timothy: A Beautiful Madonna in the Cloisters Collection[3]
  5. ^ Discovery of New Lands. The Brno Exhibition of Gothic Art of Moravia and Silesia 1935-1936 and Albert Kutal
  6. ^ Personal profile The Brno encyclopedia (in Czech)
Flag of EuropeBiography icon

This biographical article about a European art historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Kutal&oldid=1221780997"