A. Bachelor Degree Programme in Art History

1. Orientation Period

M 1: Introductory Course Art History

• 080117 VO Propädeutikum Kunstgeschichte

M 2 - M 3: Introduction to Art History

• 080032 VO Introduction to the terminology and morphology of architecture
• 080054 VO Introduction in the Fine Arts of Europe. A Survey from the Middle Ages up to Present Time

2. Art Periods

M 4: Medieval Age I (from Late Antiquity through the Romanesque Period)

M 5: Medieval Age II (Gothic and Late Gothic Periods)

• 080104 VO European Gothic Art

M 6: Renaissance and Baroque Periods

M 7: Modern and Contemporary Periods

3. Case Studies

M 8: Case Study I

• 080039 PS Love in Early Modern Europe
• 080048 PS Proseminar 2: Heinrich von Ferstel
• 080053 PS Medieval Books of Hours. Use and Decoration
• 080056 PS The Medieval Cult of Saints and Relics in Art - Case Studies from the 13th and 14th centuries
• 080134 PS Hinge-pictures (4th-20th centuries)
• 080138 PS Giovanni Bellini
• 080154 PS Foreign worlds, exotic things: The influence of colonies, navigation and scientific inventions - on the dutch painting in the seventeenth century
• 080232 PS Proseminar 2/Fallstudie I: Paintings and sculptures in the Western Himalaya

M 9 - M 10: Case Study II/III

• 080027 PS Byzantine Art in the period of Iconoclasm - rupture or continuity? - Abbruch oder Kontinuität? (byz.K.)
• 080031 PS Re/Presence: History and its Images in Modern and Contemporary Art - modernen und zeitgenössischen Kunst (nst.K.)
• 080055 PS Proseminar 3/4: Who was Henrietta Johnston? - The Art of Painting in the European Colonies of Northern America (ca. 1700-1800)
• 080067 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Western Influence on Modern and Contemporary Indian Art - (nst./au.K.)
• 080068 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Cistercian monasteries Heiligenkreuz, Zwettl and Lilienfeld. - Architecture - liturgy - historical context
• 080071 PS Proseminar 3/4: Princely Apartment, Ceremony and wall painting in 17th and 18th century - aspects of research in residence culture
• 080081 PS Proseminar 3/4: White trash: Introduction into contemporary arts and medias
• 080135 PS Proseminar 3/4: Recent contributions to picture theory/icon criticism
• 080144 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Der Maler in Florenz zwischen Gotik und Frührenaissance (m./n.K.)
• 080210 PS Proseminar 3/4/Fallstudie II/III: Josef Frank. Architecture - Interior Decoration - - Architectural Theory

4. Special Topics

M 11: Special Topics A

• 080035 UE Sculptural and Spatial Aspects of Video Art
• 080036 UE Buildings and Images. The Visualization and Representation of Architecture
• 080037 UE Gender, feminism and documenta 12
• 080044 VO European Painting of the 20th century II
• 080050 UE [ en ] The Role of Art in Modern and Post-modern Architecture and Design
• 080052 UE The cultural exchange between France and Austria from 1700 to 1900
• 080057 UE Outsider Art/Art Brut. - Tutorial on the art historic discussion of artworks of artists suffering from mental illnesses
• 080064 UE Viennese ecclesiastical architecture
• 080072 VO French Renaissance Chateaux
• 080074 VO War - Civil war - Terror in Movies after 9/11
• 080082 VO Die Rezeption der italienischen Malerei in Europa im 16. Jahrhundert (n.K.)
• 080084 UE Übung im Kunsthistorischen Museum zu Werken des 16. Jahrhunderts (n.K.)

M 12: Special Topics B

• 080022 VO Introduction into the Art History of the Buddhist Temples in India and Tibet
• 080030 UE Critically Reading Byzantium
• 080226 VO Byzantium after Byzantium

5. Specialisation

M 13: Methods/Theories in Art History

• 080059 UE Introduction in Gender, Queer and Postcolonial Studies - queer und post colonial Studies (nst.K.)
• 080076 SE Forschungsseminar für DissertantInnen und DiplomandInnen
• 080080 UE Theory and History of Architecture

M 14: Fields of Practice in Art History

• 080025 VO Museumspraxis und Ausstellungswesen

M 15: Individual Specialisation

• 080030 UE Critically Reading Byzantium
• 080035 UE Sculptural and Spatial Aspects of Video Art
• 080036 UE Buildings and Images. The Visualization and Representation of Architecture
• 080037 UE Gender, feminism and documenta 12
• 080044 VO European Painting of the 20th century II
• 080050 UE [ en ] The Role of Art in Modern and Post-modern Architecture and Design
• 080052 UE The cultural exchange between France and Austria from 1700 to 1900
• 080057 UE Outsider Art/Art Brut. - Tutorial on the art historic discussion of artworks of artists suffering from mental illnesses
• 080064 UE Viennese ecclesiastical architecture
• 080072 VO French Renaissance Chateaux
• 080074 VO War - Civil war - Terror in Movies after 9/11
• 080082 VO Die Rezeption der italienischen Malerei in Europa im 16. Jahrhundert (n.K.)
• 080084 UE Übung im Kunsthistorischen Museum zu Werken des 16. Jahrhunderts (n.K.)
• 080087 UE Scientific communication - A writers' workshop for art historians - A writers' workshop for art historians
• 080110 AG Archive and Digital Databases in Art History (with practical exercises)
• 080198 AG Work Group: Methodology of field research in the Indo-Tibetan cultural zone

6. Final Stage

M 16: Art in Vienna

M 17 - M 18: Seminar and Bachelor's Project

• 080012 SE Seminar
• 080024 SE Seminar: Tomb and Memorial Art
• 080040 SE Seminar: Cultural Exchange in Genova
• 080042 SE Seminar: Salvator Rosa (Naples 1615 - Rome 1673)
• 080046 SE Seminar: Modern Art and Architecture in Spain
• 080047 SE The Stephansdom - the new state of research critically assessed
• 080069 SE Architecture and Art of aristocratic religious women
• 080073 SE Irony and Art around 1900 (Thorstein Veblen versus Dada)
• 080075 SE Questioning the picture on digital conditions. Picture theory vs. Media theory?
• 080078 SE Seminar: The Parler family - architects and sculptors of the 14th century
• 080079 SE Seminar: Italian Baroque Architecture
• 080085 SE Seminar: Europäische Hofkunst des 16. Jahrhunderts (n.K.) - (1527-1600)
• 080086 SE Seminar: Das Ornament. Formen und Theorien (n.K.)
• 080093 SE Seminar: Italian Painting of the 16th century
• 080098 SE Seminar: Architecture in Hungary: The 12th and 13th centuries
• 080159 SE Seminar: Bauen in der frühen Neuzeit. Themen, Aufgaben und Lösungen (n.K.)