EINE IDEALISTISCHE KULTURVISION VOR HUNDERT JAHREN ODER DER KRIEG UND DIE KUNSTGESCHICHTE. ERGANZENDE BEMERKUNGEN ZUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN GENESE MAX DVOŘÁKS

The article examines the perception of the relationship between war and art in Max Dvořák’s work, exemplified on papers dedicated to works of art by Francisco de Goya (“Desastres de la guerra”) and Albrecht Dürer (“Apocalypse”). The influential Central European art historian thought that the war experience had no causal effect on the spiritual life, but may have, to some extent as a kind of catalyst, amplified the already existing collective spiritual development.