Albert Kutal
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Albert Kutal (9 January 1904,
Hranice na Moravě – 27 December 1976, Brno[1]) was a Czech art historian of Moravian descent who established classifying principles of Central European Gothic sculpture as one of the first to study and analyse the medieval art[2] of Bohemia and Moravia, and the influence upon it of Southern European iconography.[3] Kutal were influential in the development of formal analysis [4] in art history in the early 20th century. His magnum opus, still consulted, is Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia (published in English translation in 1971).[5]
Origins and career
Kutal was born into the family of state
Austro-Hungarian Empire (in the sub-region of Záhoří, today in the Czech Republic).[6] He graduated from secondary school in 1923 and went on to attend the University of Brno (1923-1928), where he was a student of Eugen Dostál and wrote his dissertation on the Romanesque and Gothic sculpture in the arch of the Porta coeli Convent in Tišnov
, Moravia.
He taught at Brno, and briefly lectured in Paris, Brussels, Leuven, Bonn, Vienna and Graz.
Works
- "Quelques remarques sur la sculpture gothique en Boheme", in Actes du XIX. Congres international d'histoire de l'art (Paris, 1959), pp. 100–104.
- České gotické sochařstvi, 1350–1450 (Prague, 1962)
- "La 'Belle Madone' de Budapest" in Bulletin du Muse'e Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 23 (1963), pp.2I-40.
- Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia, translated by Till Gottheiner (London, 1971)
References
- ^ Grave information for PhDr. Albert Kutal DrSc., located in the hřbitov Brno - ústřední (The Central Cemetery), Brno, Moravia
- ^ Albert Kutal: The Brunswick sketchbook and Czech Art of the eighties of the 14th Century [1]
- ^ Otto Pächt and Albert Kutal: Methodological Parallels [2]
- ^ H U S B A N D, Timothy: A Beautiful Madonna in the Cloisters Collection[3]
- ^ Discovery of New Lands. The Brno Exhibition of Gothic Art of Moravia and Silesia 1935-1936 and Albert Kutal
- ^ Personal profile The Brno encyclopedia (in Czech)
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