Movement
Vienna School of Art History
Explore in the Atlas →The Austrian/German Kunstwissenschaft tendency, associated with Riegl, that re-grounded art and architectural history in autonomous period-impulse (Kunstwollen) rather than material determinism, providing a disciplinary object for stylistic analysis.
Knowledge Representation Heritage
Details
- Origin
- Vienna, Austria
Referenced by
- Alois Riegl associated with
Sources
- Riegl. Die spätrömische Kunstindustrie. 1901.
- Riegl, A. Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik. Georg Siemens, 1893.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Vienna School of Art History." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/vienna-school-art-history/. Accessed July 17, 2026.