Albert Kutal

Albert Kutal (Czech: [9. january 1904, Hranice na Moravě – 27. decembre 1976, Brno) was a Czech art historian, moravian descent whose objective classifying principles of central european 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 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).

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. Biography 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 conventual temple in Tišnov, in Moravia.

Further readings

• KUTAL, Albert (1971), Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia. Published by London, New York, Sydney, Toronto : Hamlyn, ISBN 10: 0600016587 ISBN 13: 9780600016588
• 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;

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