Albert Kutal

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Albert Kutal

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'''Albert Kutal''' (9 January 1904 – 27 December 1976) was a Czechoslovak art historian. He established classifying principles of [[Central Europe]]an [[Gothic sculpture]] as one of the first to study and analyse the medieval artAlbert Kutal: The Brunswick sketchbook and Czech Art of the eighties of the 14th Century [https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/110648/F_HistoriaeArtium_05-1961-1_11.pdf?sequence=1] of Bohemia and Moravia, and the influence upon it of Southern European [[iconography]].Otto Pächt and Albert Kutal:
'''Albert Kutal''' (9 January 1904 – 27 December 1976) was a Czech art historian. He established classifying principles of [[Central Europe]]an [[Gothic sculpture]] as one of the first to study and analyse the medieval artAlbert Kutal: The Brunswick sketchbook and Czech Art of the eighties of the 14th Century [https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/110648/F_HistoriaeArtium_05-1961-1_11.pdf?sequence=1] of Bohemia and Moravia, and the influence upon it of Southern European [[iconography]].Otto Pächt and Albert Kutal:
Methodological Parallels [https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/bakos.pdf] Kutal were influential in the development of formal analysis H U S B A N D, Timothy: A Beautiful Madonna in the Cloisters Collection[https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3258504.pdf.bannered.pdf] 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).[https://is.muni.cz/publication/1080797?lang=en Discovery of New Lands. The Brno Exhibition of Gothic Art of Moravia and Silesia 1935-1936 and Albert Kutal]
Methodological Parallels [https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/bakos.pdf] Kutal were influential in the development of formal analysis H U S B A N D, Timothy: A Beautiful Madonna in the Cloisters Collection[https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3258504.pdf.bannered.pdf] 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).[https://is.muni.cz/publication/1080797?lang=en Discovery of New Lands. The Brno Exhibition of Gothic Art of Moravia and Silesia 1935-1936 and Albert Kutal]


==Origins and career ==
==Origins and career ==
Kutal was born on 9 January 1904 in [[Hranice (Přerov District)|Hranice]], [[Moravia]], [[Austria-Hungary]]. He was born into the family of state [[geodesist]] František Kutal.{{cite web |title=Albert Kutal|url=https://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=10291|work=Encyklopedie Brna|language=cs|access-date=2025-09-09}} He graduated from secondary school in 1923 and went on to attend the [[Masaryk University|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]].
Kutal was born on 9 January 1904 in [[Hranice (Přerov District)|Hranice]], [[Moravia]], [[Austria-Hungary]]. He was born into the family of state [[geodesist]] František Kutal.{{cite web |title=Albert Kutal|url=https://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=10291|work=Encyklopedie dějin Brna|language=cs|access-date=2025-09-09}} He graduated from secondary school in 1923 and went on to attend the [[Masaryk University|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]].


He taught at [[Brno]], and briefly lectured in [[Paris]], [[Brussels]], [[Leuven]], [[Bonn]], [[Vienna]] and [[Graz]].
He taught at [[Brno]], and briefly lectured in [[Paris]], [[Brussels]], [[Leuven]], [[Bonn]], [[Vienna]] and [[Graz]].


Kutal died on 27 December 1976 in Brno. He was buried at the Brno Central Cemetery.
Kutal died on 27 December 1976 in Brno. He was buried at the [[Brno Central Cemetery]].


==Works==
==Works==
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