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Politics, Photography and Architecture: The University of Vienna’s First Study Trip (Erste Wiener Universitätsreise) and Monuments on the Eastern Adriatic Coast

At the very end of the “long nineteenth century”, between the 22nd of March and the 1st of April 1910, the University of Vienna organized its first study trip and chose the eastern coast of the Adriatic as its destination, focusing on Dalmatia. The trip was organized on the initiative of the then rector of the University of Vienna - Heinrich Swoboda, and included 300 participants. (fig. 1.) (Figure 1). The preparations for this trip consisted of an exhibition and public lectures on topics relating to the eastern Adriatic coast. It also prompted the publication of an edited volume in 1911, consisting of essays by key art historians (Max Dvořak and Josef Strzygowski) and other scholars active at the University of Vienna at the time. Although scholars have shown some interest in this trip, among the still-unpublished materials remains a large album of photographs taken during the trip, which is kept in the University of Vienna’s Archive. The photographs in this album represent a valuable record of the state of numerous monuments on the eastern Adriatic coast at the beginning of the twentieth century, but also to the interventions and restorations that were under way at the time. This paper focuses on the political aspect of the organization of the University of Vienna’s first study trip, its participants, as well as the subjects and authors of photographs in the album.

Dalmacija, Monuments, Bruno Reiffenstein, Artur Rössler, Heinrich Swoboda, Max Dvořak, Josef Strzygowski, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Franz Ferdinand, Austrian Lloyd (Österreichischer Lloyd), Poreč, Pula, Trogir, Split, Dubrovnik, Mostar

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