Sylvia Stegbauer

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Sylvia Stegbauer is 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. She studied Art history at the University of Vienna and completed the postgraduate course /educating-curating-managing at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her research focuses on collection history, prints, Baroque ceiling painting and architectural history of the early modern period in Central Europe. From 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 at the University of Vienna. Since 2020, she has been a research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies in the Research Unit History of Art. In the course of the project "The Development of Visual Arts into "psychagogical" Media of the Society of Jesus", she is working on the Jesuit Colleges of the Austrian Province. Her dissertation project deals with the Jesuit settlement in Graz.

Research interests: Early modern period, History of collections, Prints, Baroque painting, History of architecture

Current research project: The Jesuits in Graz. Studies on the buildings and functional history

The main object of research is a study on the buildings and functional history with a focus on the use of the Arts by the Jesuits in the context of the "psychagogical" Media and the Jesuit college in Graz, founded in 1573. The city represented an important artistic and cultural centre 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 Convict.

Publications:

  • Die Jesuiten in Wiener Neustadt; Die Baugeschichte des Jesuitenkollegiums; Die ehemalige Jesuitenkirche in Wiener Neustadt; Die ehemalige Jesuitenkirche St. Leopold und die Jesuitenresidenz in der Vorstadt, in: Wiener Neustädter Sparkasse (Hg.), Neunkirchnerstraße 17, Stammhaus der Wiener Neustädter Sparkasse. Festschrift zur Revitalisierung. Bauforschungen aus Niederösterreich Bd. 4, Wien 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 (Hg.), Kunstsammler in Wien. Biografische Profile zwischen Statuskonkurrenz, Kunstmarkt und Kennerschaft, erscheint Ende 2023.

Presentations:

  • „der begehrte Tausch, ein Schüler Pozzos, des berühmten Apelles der Societas“ und die ehemalige Jesuitenkirche in Trenčín, Jesuitenkommunität Wien, 19.12.2022.
  • Architecture of Religious Communities in the 17th and 18th Centuries in Styria. The Jesuit Settlements in Graz, Leoben and Judenburg, Internationale Tagung: Studium et ardor. znanstveni skup povodom stote obljetnice rođenja Radmile Matejčić, Philosophische Fakultät Rijeka, 24.11.2022.
  • Die Jesuiten in Wiener Neustadt, Vortrag im Rahmen der Buchpräsentation: 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, Slowenische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Ljubljana, 04.10.2022.
  • Das Freskenprogramm in der ehemaligen Konviktskapelle der Jesuiten in Graz, Kick-off des Dach-Projektes: Die Entwicklung der visuellen Künste zu „psychagogischen“ Medien der Gesellschaft Jesu, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften IHB, Wien, 18.06.2021.