Workshop: The Ukrainian Horizons of the Vienna School of Art History

Against the backdrop of a general surge in interest in Ukraine’s cultural heritage since the 2022 invasion, the name Wladimir Sas-Zaloziecki (and its various forms, including Volodymyr Zalozets'kyi) has repeatedly come to the fore within Central European contexts. However, there has been some confusion as this name was borne by two individuals with intersecting biographies. Both hailed from east of the Carpathians and studied art history in Vienna in the early 1900s. After political activism during the interwar period, they found themselves in the former imperial capital once more in the 1940s. The younger of the two, from Lviv, pursued a successful, albeit fragmented, career as an art historian specializing in Byzantine and Eastern European art. The other, from Chernivtsi, initially worked in monument preservation and later became a senator in the Romanian parliament and a specialist in folk art. This workshop aims to expand knowledge of these individuals by drawing on information from archival and other sources. It also seeks to revisit their largely forgotten writings in light of their potentially overlooked merit.

Organized by Maximilian Hartmuth (University of Vienna), Mariana Bodnaruk (University of Warsaw), Robert Born (BKGE Oldenburg).

Programm

09.00-09:15 Welcome
09:15-10:00 Opening panel (1a)
• Maximilian Hartmuth (Vienna), Mariana Bodnaruk (Warsaw), Robert Born
(Oldenburg): Opening addresses
• Börries Kuzmany (Vienna): A tour de force through the history of Austrian Galicia
and Bukovina, illustrated by the example of Roman Zalozets'kyi
10:00-11:00 Panel 1b (Chair: Maximilian Hartmuth)
• Mariana Bodnaruk (Warsaw): Volodymyr R. Sas-Zalozets’kyi and the history of style:
Reading the medieval Rus’ Byzantine churches of St. Sophia, St. Michael, and St.
Cyril of Kyiv
• Stefania Demchuk (Kyiv): Baroque as Renaissance: The formal identity of early
modern Ukrainian art in the writings of Volodymyr R. Zalozets’kyi-Sas
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:45 Panel 2 (Chair: Mariana Bodnaruk)
• Robert Born (Oldenburg): A heritage conservationist turned senator and, ultimately,
puppeteer: A fragmentary reconstruction of the eventful biography of Volodymyr
Sergius Sas-Zalozets'kyi
• Maximilian Hartmuth (Vienna): Ukrainian Empire? Volodymyr S. Zalozets’kyi’s role in
the revamping of Chernivtsi’s Greek-Catholic church ca. 1930
• Martin Rohde (Vienna): From Bukovina to Europe: Volodymyr Zalozets’kyi as
mediator of the Hutsul region
12:45-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:45 Panel 3 (Chair: Robert Born)
• Roksolana Avdykovych (Lviv): The Lviv chapter in Volodymyr R. Sas-Zalozets’kyi’s
intellectual biography: Teaching and scholarly work at the Greek-Catholic
Theological Academy
• Veronika Weisheimer (Frankfurt/Oder): Volodymyr Sas-Zalozets’kyi's political
interactions and career milestones in Berlin in the 1920s
• Iryna Orlova (Graz): Wladimir Sas-Zaloziecky in Ukrainian exile politics during the
Interwar Period: Networks, loyalties, and agency
15:45-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Panel 4 (Chair: Maximilian Hartmuth)
• Waldemar Deluga (Ostrava): Jarosław Konstantynowicz and Wladimir Sas-Zaloziecky
and their attitudes towards political change in the 20th Century
• Tomáš Kowalski (Bratislava): Wladimir R. Zaloziecky's field research in the
Carpathian lands
17:00-17:30 Closing remarks

Kontakt
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