Sylvia Stegbauer

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Sylvia Stegbauer MA MA is a research associate at the Belvedere Research Center. She studied art history at the University of Vienna and completed the postgraduate programme /ecm at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her research focuses on the history of collections, architecture and religious orders in the early modern period, Austrian Baroque studies and digital art history. In 2019/2020, she worked on the research project ‘Collectors, Collections, Collecting Cultures in Vienna and Central Europe’ at the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting (VCHC). From 2020 to 2024, she was a research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB) in the Research Unit History of Art. As part of an FWF project, she investigated Jesuit colleges in the Austrian Province of the Order. She led a research project funded by the City of Vienna in which she analysed the piety practices of Jesuit-led congregations and their premises in Vienna. In her dissertation project, she is working on a buildings and functional history of the Jesuit settlement in Graz.

Research interests: history of collections, architecture and religious orders in the early modern period, Austrian Baroque studies and digital art history

Current research project: The Jesuits in Graz. Studies on the buildings and functional history
The main object of research is the Jesuit college in Graz (founded in 1573) with a focus on the use of the Arts by the Jesuits. The city represented an important artistic and cultural center and was a place of exchange for artists from Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary. Today, despite changes in the 18th and 19th centuries, the entire complex is an impressive example of the order's architecture and one of the largest college buildings of the 16th century. The focus of the PhD project is on four buildings: the former Jesuit church, Jesuit College, Old University and the Jesuit convent for theology students.

Publications:

  • Erzherzog Leopold Wilhelm (1614–1662): Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens und Förderer der Jesuiten [Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662): Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and patron of the Jesuits], in: Deutscher Orden. Religiös-kulturelle Zeitschrift des Ordens für seine Brüder, Schwestern, Familiaren und Freunde, 1/2024, Vienna 2024.
  • Die Kongregationen der Jesuiten in Innerösterreich und deren Frömmigkeitspraxis [The Congregations of the Jesuits in Inner Austria and their Piety Practice], Studien und Forschungen aus dem Niederösterreichischen Institut für Landeskunde, Band 79, (to be published in 2024/2025).
  • The Jesuits in Inner Austria. Studies on the settlement of the Order in Graz, in: Historični seminar ZRC SAZU 15, Ljubljana 2024 (to be published in 2024).
  • Die Jesuiten in Graz. Studien zur Bau- und Funktionsgeschichte der Niederlassung. Dissertationsprojekt [The Jesuits in Graz. Studies on the building and functional history of the settlement. Dissertation project], in: Reich – Recht – Religion – mediale Repräsentation in der Frühen Neuzeit, Frühneuzeit-Info 34, Vienna 2023.
  • Die Jesuiten in Wiener Neustadt, in: Wiener Neustädter Sparkasse (ed.), Neunkirchnerstraße 17, Stammhaus der Wiener Neustädter Sparkasse. Festschrift zur Revitalisierung. Bauforschungen aus NÖ Bd. 4, Vienna 2022.
  • Ignaz Unterberger 1748-1797; Albert von Sachsen-Teschen 1738-1822; Auguste Stummer von Tavarnok 1848-1896; Pietro di Galvagni 1797-1868; Adele Bloch-Bauer 1881-1925, in: Sebastian Schütze (ed.), Kunstsammler in Wien. Biografische Profile zwischen Statuskonkurrenz, Kunstmarkt und Kennerschaft [Art collectors in Vienna. Biographical profiles between status competition, the art market and connoisseurship] (to be published in 2024).

Presentations:

  • Splendour and function in transition: an investigation of the former Jesuit College in Graz, Central European Workshops – Bridging Early Modern History (CEW): Central Europe in the Early Modern Era: Politics, Economy, Society, Culture; Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Brno, 21.06.2024.
  • Zu sunderen ehren unnd wolgefallen der hochlöblichen unser Frauen Bruederschafft in dem Kayserlichen Collegio der Societet Jesu zu Wien [...] auff gerichtes werckh verehret unnd dediciret.“ Die Kongregation Mariä Himmelfahrt am Wiener Jesuitenkolleg, [The Congregation of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary at the Jesuit College in Vienna], Workshop: Die Frömmigkeitspraxis der marianischen Kongregationen der Jesuiten im Wiener Raum [The Piety Practice of the Marian Congregations of the Jesuits in the Vienna region], ÖAW IHB, Vienna, 14.05.2024.
  • Die Bedeutung von Bildern und Räumen für den Jesuitenorden [The importance of images and spaces for the Jesuit order], Nachwuchsforum - Art History Reels, 37. Deutscher Kongress für Kunstgeschichte 2024 [Young Talent Forum - Art History Reels, 37th German Congress of Art History 2024], Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 16.3.2024.
  • „...man bauete selbes geräumer, es wurden schöne gemalene Säle angeleget, […] und die Kapelle ausgezieret. Auch von außen zeiget es Pracht und Ansehen […].“ Baugeschichte, Ausstattung und Funktion des erzherzoglichen Konvikts der Jesuiten in Graz [Building and functional history of the archducal convent of the Jesuits in Graz], Studientag des Forschungsschwerpunkts Österreich in seinem Umfeld [Study Day of the research focus on Austria in its surroundings], Vienna, 18.12.2023.
  • Die Jesuiten in Innerösterreich und die Frömmigkeitspraxis der Bruderschaften [The Jesuits in Inner Austria and the Piety Practice of the Brotherhoods], Symposium: Der Sieg der Gegenreformation in Niederösterreich (1608-1657), [The Victory of the Counter-Reformation in Lower Austria], Horn, 5.7.2023.
  • Die Hofgesellschaften und die Jesuiten [The Court Societies and the Jesuits], WIEN-BERLIN. Hofgesellschaften DIGITAL 23, Vienna, 21.4.2023.
  • Die Jesuiten in Graz. Studien zur Bau- und Funktionsgeschichte der Niederlassung [The Jesuits in Graz. Studies on the building and functional history of the settlement], Jour fixe des Instituts für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit in Kooperation mit der Reihe „Geschichte am Mittwoch“, [Jour fixe of the Institute for the Study of the Early Modern Period in cooperation with the series "History von Wednesday"], University of Vienna, 19.4.2023.
  • The expression of a meditation programme through staircases. Examples in the Jesuit Colleges of the Austrian Province of the Order, International Conference: Plurality in the artistic and architectural theories of the Jesuits, ÖAW IHB, Vienna, 31.03.2023.
  • „der begehrte Tausch, ein Schüler Pozzos, des berühmten Apelles der Societas“ und die ehemalige Jesuitenkirche in Trenčín, [The former Jesuit church in Trenčín], Jesuit community Vienna, 19.12.2022.
  • Architecture of Religious Communities in the 17th and 18th Centuries in Styria. The Jesuit Settlements in Graz, Leoben and Judenburg, International Conference: Studium et ardor. znanstveni skup povodom stote obljetnice rođenja Radmile Matejčić, Faculty of Philosophy Rijeka, 24.11.2022.
  • Die Jesuiten in Wiener Neustadt [The Jesuits in Wiener Neustadt], lecture as part of the book presentation: Neunkirchnerstraße 17, Stammhaus der Wiener Neustädter Sparkasse. Festschrift zur Revitalisierung, Wiener Neustadt, 14.11.2022.
  • The Jesuits in Graz. Studies on the buildings and functional history, Historični seminar, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, 04.10.2022.
  • Das Freskenprogramm in der ehemaligen Konviktskapelle der Jesuiten in Graz [The fresco program of the former Jesuit convent chapel in Graz], kick-off of the project: Die Entwicklung der visuellen Künste zu „psychagogischen“ Medien der Gesellschaft Jesu [The development of the visual arts as ‘psychagogic’ media of the Society of Jesus], Austrian Academy of Sciences, IHB, Vienna, 18.06.2021.
  • Die Druckgraphikkassette Röm. DG 68 von Albert von Sachsen-Teschen: Das Verhältnis von Original und Reproduktionsgraphik im Hinblick auf Authentizität, [The printed graphics cassette Röm. DG 68 by Albert of Saxe-Teschen: The relationship between original and reproduction prints with regard to authenticity], Study Course Albertina, Vienna, July/August 2019.