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Dalmatian examples of the search for a methodology of the «moderne Denkmalpflege»

The affirmation of Alois Riegl's concept of age value and personnel changes in the Central Commission takig place between 1902 and 1911, meant a radical turn in the understanding of the role of conservation and restoration within the scope of the protection of monuments. Alois Riegl set down a fundamental direction in his work but did not proffer a methodology to go with it. Julius Deininger, a head of the technical departement of the Central Commission, discoursed in 1911 at a Salzburg conference of conservators and correspondents of the Central Commission on the practical application of new principles in monument protection. he pointed out that a new program of protection of cultural heritage would not simply endorse the unchangeability of form, but also insist on preserving ambience values: veneer, dilapidation, open fugues, plants, and the like. He insisted that copying and replacement of elements aready in existence on the object/artefact be abandoned because these would cause it to loose its status of a monument. He upheld a motto: «Don't restore, conserve!», which was ascribed to Dvořák in his Katechismus from 1916. Both texts should thus be seen as attempts to bring together all prior experience. Both the instructions of the technical conservator and Katechismus exhibit a trong influence of the Tage der Denkmalpflege manifestation, including also practical experience gained in the Austrian service for the protection of monuments. by analyzing concurrently conservation issues in connection with the Buvina portal of the Split Cathedral in 1908, then Dvořák's proposal for the conservation works on a new ceiling of the Zadar Cathedral, and finally Karl Holey's project for the consolidation of the Vestibul from 1909-1911, we may contend that the experience gathered in Dalmatia provide dan extremely valuable impetus for defining a new methodology and for reshaping personnel policy in the course of building up the Commission itself.

Central Commission; Julius Deininger; Max Dvořák; Karl Holey; Dalmatia

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