This Conference examines the impact of the ideas of the Vienna School of Art History in Central Europe and Beyond. The Vienna School has been widely recognised as playing a crucial role in the establishment of art history as an academic discipline. Most scholarship on the School has, however, privileged authors writing in German. Many students of Art History at the University of Vienna were, however, of Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Croat or Hungarian origin.

This conference considers, therefore, the dissemination and transformation of the ideas associated with the Vienna School throughout Austria-Hungary and the successor states of Central Europe after 1918. It examines both the ways in which the ideas of the Vienna School shaped the formative historiographies of art across Central Europe and also how they were transformed when applied to new contexts, in particular, the political and ideological imperatives of the new states after the collapse of the Empire.

Speakers include:

- Georg Vasold (Vienna): Alois Riegl and the Politics of Folk Art

- Milena Bartlova (Brno): Continuity and Discontinuity: From Austria-Hungary to Czechoslovakia

- Jan Bakos (Bratislava): The Vienna School in Moravia: Albert Kutal and Václav Richter

- Nenad Makuljevich (Belgrade): Josef Strzygowski and Serbian Art History

- Svetlana Rakic (Franklin Coll, Indiana): The Beginnings of Art History in Habsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1889-1915

- Rachel Rossner (Chicago): The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873 and the formation of Art Discourse in Croatia

- Clemena Antonova (Sofia): The Vienna School in Russia: Critical Responses and Readings

- Marta Filipova (Nottingham Trent): Between East and West: The Vienna School and the Idea of Czechoslovak Art

- Wojciech Balus (Cracow): Riegl and Dvořák in Poland: Readings and Responses

- Stefan Muthesius (East Anglia): The Cracow School of Art History

- Diana Cordileone-Reynolds (Point Loma): Bukovina, Bosnia and the Back of Beyond: Alois Riegl and the Monarchy’s Peripheries 1885-1897

- Ljiljana Kolesnik (Zagreb): Art History in Croatia: Ljubo Karaman and the Idea of Artistic Peripheries

- Paul Stirton (Bard): The Vienna School in Budapest: Antal, Wilde and Fülep

- Matthew Rampley (Teesside): Art History, Racism and Nationalism. Coriolan Petranu and the Idea of Transylvanian Art