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Court Architects in Europe, ca. 1700: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and His Contemporaries
Theatermuseum im Palais Lobkowitz, Vienna, 30 November — 2 December 2023

Registration due by 27 November 2023

Scholarly research has described Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723) early on as an outstanding artistic personality and has endeavored to contour his built, drawn, and printed oeuvre, which can safely be described by his own word as ungemein (‘extraordinary’). Even if scholars have increasingly been concerned with integrating Fischer into the architectural culture of his time, it has rightly and repeatedly been emphasized that the question of his international profile still requires a broader perspective that takes into account the relationship to his contemporary ‘colleagues’ as well as structural questions. In this sense, the conference aims to examine Fischer’s activities in a broader European context by means of selected thematic fields, thus attempting to sharpen his profile. Registration requested to irina.morze@wienmuseum.at by 27 November.

Organizers
• Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB) der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Wien Museum
• Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Münster

Concept
Herbert Karner, Jens Niebaum, Andreas Nierhaus

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13.00  Welcome and Introduction

13.30  Section 1 | Architects of Great Courts: Conditions, Scope, Hierarchies
• Anna Mader-Kratky — Fischer von Erlach als kaiserlicher Oberbauinspektor und die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen des Wiener Hofbauamtes
• Simon Thurley — Sir Christopher Wren and His Contemporaries at Court: British Royal Architects and Architecture, 1660–1714
• Benjamin Ringot — Jules Hardouin-Mansart, from Architect to Administrator: Becoming Louis XIV’s Superintendent of Royal Buildings
• Martin Olin — Architect, Courtier, Police Minister: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger in the Service of Royal Absolutism
• Konrad Ottenheym — Jacob Roman, Hofarchitekt der Oranier um 1700

17.30  Discussion

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9.00  Section 2 | Drawing and Prints: Media of Visualisation, Transfer, and Knowledge Production
• Werner Oechslin — „…das Auge zu ergötzen, und denen Künstlern zu Erfindungen Anlass zu geben…“: Fischer von Erlachs Zeichnungen für die Historische Architektur
• Jasenka Gudelj — Fischer von Erlach’s Dalmatian Connection: Drawing the Diocletian Palace in Split
• Elisabeth Kieven — Fischer von Erlach und Juvarra: Zeichnungen im Vergleich
• Kristina Deutsch — Jean Marot und die druckgraphische Architekturdarstellung zur Zeit Ludwigs XIV. in Frankreich

12.00  Lunch Break

13.30  Section 2 | Drawing and Prints, continued
• Jonas Nordin — The People beyond the Mountains: Erik Dahlbergh’s Images of Swedish Architecture and Topography
• Peter H. Jahn — „Inventées … par Mathieu Daniel Pöppelmann Premier Architecte de Sa Majesté“ – das Dresdner Zwingerstichwerk von 1729 als publizistische Statusbekundung eines Hofbaumeisters

14.40  Discussion

16.15  Section 3 | Paths to Architecture: Court Architects and Their Education around 1700
• Anna-Victoria Bognár — Das akademische Studium der Architektur in der Frühen Neuzeit. Zur Entwicklung von Studienzahlen, Studienorten und Inhalten
• Giuseppe Bonaccorso — The Roman Training of Johann Bernhard and Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach between Carlo Fontana and Emissaries from European Courts
• Alexandre Gady — Becoming Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the Sun King’s First Architect

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9.00  Section 3 | Paths to Architecture, continued
• Kristoffer Neville — Nicodemus Tessin’s Autobiography
• Matthew Walker — Christopher Wren: From Science to Service
• Tommaso Manfredi — Studying Architecture in Rome between the 17th and the 18th Centuries: From Fischer von Erlach to Juvarra
• Giuseppe Dardanello — Practicing with Goldsmithing, Perspective Views, Stage Design: Filippo Juvarra Shaping His Own Visual Design Culture
• Freek Schmidt — Renewing Court Architecture in a Republic: The Professional Advancement of Pieter de Swart

13.00  Discussion