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Renate Wagner-Rieger and the History of Croatian 19th Century Architecture

Although none of the Croatian art historians whose focus of research interest was/is 19th-century art studied at the University of Vienna at the time when Renate Wagner-Rieger worked as a professor there, through monographs published within the “Die Wiener Ringstrasse. Bild einer Epoche”, in the first place through the book “Wiens Architektur im 19. Jahrhundert”, and to some extent through other books she wrote independently or in co-authorship “Historismus und Schlossbau”, “Theophil von Hansen”, etc.), this art historian has had a strong influence on Croatian art history in last decades of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. Not long after the publication of the Wagner- Rieger’s monograph on Vienna 19th century architecture, in the 1970s, art historians Lelja Dobronić, Đurđica Cvitanović, Željka Čorak, Ivo Maroević, Snješka Knežević, Vladimir Maleković, and in the first place and most of all Olga Maruševski began to use it as a reference source for the study of Croatian 19th century architecture. Generations of younger art historians will follow in their footsteps, so even today almost all authors dealing with Croatian 19th century architecture, especially authors focusing on the study of the architecture of northern Croatia, and to a lesser extent also of Dalmatia, refer to the writings of Renate Wagner- Rieger. Renate Wagner-Rieger’s work played an important role in revitalizing the interest in 19th century architecture, in its inclusion in the national history of art in Croatia. Stylistic terms, periodization of the 19th century architecture, especially of historicism (its division into early/romantic, strict and late historicism), way of structuring the text within monographs on the history of architecture of cities or areas according to building types (religious, residential, public architecture) used by Renate Wagner-Rieger have had an exceptional impact on the approach to the treatment of similar topics in Croatian art history.

Renate Wagner-Rieger, Neoclassicism, Historicism, 19th Century Architecture, History of the History of Art

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