Tietze, Hans

Date born:  1880

Place born: Prague, Czechoslovakia

Date died:  1954

Place died:  New York, NY

One of the "Vienna School" art historians; wrote a major "principles of art history" monograph; one of the founders of the Baroque Museum, Vienna.  Married to art historian Erika Tietze-Conrat (q.v.).  Tietze held an ad personam chair in Stryzgowski's (?) Erstes Kunsthistorisches Institut.  Among the scholars who were influenced by him were Otto Kurz (q.v.).  Tietze's early research into the Bolognese Anibale Carracci (1906), perhaps influence Kurz to write his dissertation on the (still unfashionable) Guido Reni.

Home Country:  Austria

Sources:  Dilly, 21; Jahn, 183-198 ("1-16"). Port. signature.; KMP, 21 mentioned, 18 n. 33; Bazin 156;  Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 415-8; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 689-699; [observations of Tietze in] Gombrich, Ernst.  "The Exploration of Culture Contacts:  The Services to Scholarship of Otto Kurz (1908-1975)."  Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition.  Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984, p. 237

Bibliography:  Die Methode de Kunstgeschichte. Leipzig: E.A. Seeman, 1913; [with Erika Tietze-Conrat] Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. 3 vols. Augsburg: B. Filser, 1928-38.