Hubert Janitschek (30 October 1846 – 21 June 1893) was an Austrian-German

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

. Janitschek was born in

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. From 1868 to 1873 he studied history and philosophy at the

University of Graz The University of Graz (, formerly: ''Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz'') is a public university, public research university located in Graz, Austria. It is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-old ...

, followed by several years study of art history in Italy (1873–77). From 1877 to 1879 he worked in the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, and in the meantime obtained his

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at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

(1878). Successively, he was a professor of art history at the universities of

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

(from 1879),

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(from 1881) and

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

(from 1891).Janitscharenmusik – Jankau
Brockhaus Konversationslexikon In 1890 he created the terms "

Ottonian art Ottonian art is a style (visual arts), style in Pre-Romanesque art, pre-romanesque German art, covering also some works from the Low Countries, northern Italy and eastern France. It was named by the art historian Hubert Janitschek after the Ottoni ...

" and "Ottonian painting". Among his students were

Georg Dehio Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 – 21 March 1932), was a Baltic German art historian. In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte''" (Handbook of German Art History), published by Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, ...

Aby Warburg Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the ''Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg'' (Warburg Library for Cultural Studies), a private library, which was later m ...

, Paul Clemen and Wilhelm Vöge. In 1882 he married the writer Maria Tölk (1859–1927). He died in 1893 in Leipzig.

Select writings

*''Leone Battista Albertis kleinere kunsttheoretische Schriften''. Vienna: W. Braumüller, 1877. *''Die Gesellschaft der Renaissance in Italien und die Kunst''. Stuttgart: W. Spemann, 1879. *"Zwei Studien zur Geschichte der karolingischen Malerei." In ''Strassburger Festgruss an Anton Springer zum 4. Mai 1885''. Stuttgart: Spemann, 1885, pp. 1–30. *''Die Geschichte der deutschen Malerei''. 5 vols. Berlin: Grote, 1887-1890. *''Die Kunstlehre Dantes and Giottos Kunst''. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1892.

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Dictionary of Art Historians: Janitschek, Hubert
{{DEFAULTSORT:Janitschek, Hubert 1846 births 1893 deaths German art historians People from Opava Academic staff of Charles University University of Graz alumni Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Academic staff of Leipzig University German male non-fiction writers

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