‘Das Problem der persischen Kunst‘, a translation edited with an introduction by Yuka Kadoi

Abstract

Among several publications written by the Vienna School of Art History professor Josef Strzygowski (1862 – 1941) during the first few decades of the twentieth century, “Das Problem der persischen Kunst” (1911), deserves a detailed art-historiographical investigation. Published in the Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, this article is of particular interest as a mirror of stormy exchanges among two of the early 20th-century giants in the emerging research field of what came to be known later as “Islamic art history” – namely the Habsburg art historian Josef Strzygowski and the Prussian archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948).

Keywords

• persian art
• josef strzygowski
• ernst hertzfeld