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Otto Pächt in the Bodleian Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Martin Kauffmann*
Affiliation:
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, UK
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Abstract

Otto Pächt came to England already formed as an art historian of the Vienna school. His natural orbit was the Warburg Institute, but with the outbreak of war he moved to Oxford and began to catalogue the illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. The catalogue was destined to have a major impact on the field; but by the time it was published Pächt had taken up the chair of art history in Vienna, one of the few refugee scholars to have returned to live and work in his native country.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2013

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References

1. Alexander, Jonathan J.G., ‘Otto Pächt 1902-1988’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 80 (1991 Lectures and memoirs): 453-72.Google Scholar
2. See also ‘Am Anfang war das Auge’: Otto Pächt: Symposium anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstages (Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Vienna, 27-28 September 2002), eds. Pächt, M. and Rosenauer, A. (Munich: Institut für Kunstgeschichte, 2006).Google Scholar
3. Bibliographies of Pächt’s writings can be found in Kunsthistorische Forschungen Otto Pächt zu Ehren, eds. Rosenauer, A. and Weber, G. (Salzburg: Residenz Verlag, 1972);Google Scholar
Pächt, O., Methodisches zur kunsthistorischen Praxis: ausgewählte Schriften, eds. Oberheidacher, J., Rosenauer, A., and Schikola, G.. 2nd ed. (Munich: Prestel, 1986); and in Kunsthistoriker: Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Kunsthistorikerverbändes, 5 (1988).Google Scholar
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5. Warburg Institute Archive: correspondence with Fritz Saxl. [See also Oxford University Archives, file FA 9/2/666.] The contents of me archive of Otto Pächt at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte of the University of Vienna are listed at http://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/forschung/buchmalerei/archiv/.Google Scholar