PhDr. Tomáš Murár, Ph.D.

Researcher, Department of Historiography and Theory of Art

At the Institute of Art History, Tomáš Murár is researching Max Dvořák’s art history based on his previously unpublished texts. This research is supported by the Czech Science Foundation project Max Dvořák’s Opera Inedita. Institutionalization, Self-Identification, and Affectivity in the History of Art (reg. no. 25-17479S). Murár organizes the international academic conferences of The Vienna School of Art History (since 2019), and regularly publishes proceedings from these conferences in peer-reviewed international journals. He publishes scholarly articles and gives lectures on historiography, methodology, and the theory of art history from the 15th century to the present.

Research outputs (selection):

Tomáš Murár, Zrcadla (v) pohledu: Michel Foucault a Josef König ad marginem teorie vidění obrazu, Filosofický časopis 74 (4), 2025, s. 631–644.

Tomáš Murár, Who´s Afraid of Alois Riegl? Special Issue on the Vienna School of Art History, The Edgar Wind Journal 9/2025, s. 5–26.

Tomáš Murár, „Ein neuer, universal weltlicher Idealismus“: Max Dvořák’s Visible Reality of the Renaissance, Umění/Art 4, LXXII, 2024 pp. 345–355.

Tomáš Murár, On the Philosophical Archaelogy of Art History, Ars 57, 2024, No. 2, s. 103–111.

Tomáš Murár, „I am Wrong About My Qualifications, or I do not Have Any Friends“: Archival Research on the First Professorship of Max Dvořák, Folia Historiae Artium 22, 2024, pp. 59–65. 

Tomáš Murár, „The Work is only in a moment“: Max Dvořák and the Meaning of the Work of Art, Acta Historiae Artium Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 64, 1, 2023, s. 213–226.

Tomáš Murár, Die Tragik in der Kunst Michelangelos als Max Dvořáks Vermächtnis in der Kunstgeschichte Hans Sedlmayrs, Folia Historiae Artium 20, 2022.

Tomáš Murár, The Dark Side of the End of Art. In: Devouring One’s Own Tail. Autopoiesis in Perspective, ed. Vojtěch Kolman a Tomáš Murár, Praha: Karolinum 2022, s. 135–151.

Tomáš Murár, Moderner Inhalt in manieristischer Form. Max Dvořák unter dem Einfluss Georg Simmels, RIHA Journal 2021.

Tomáš Murár, Umění jako princip a zákonitost. K dějinám a metodologii umění Vojtěcha Birnbauma / Art as Principle and Pattern. Vojtěch Birnbaum’s Concept and Method of Art History, Kostelec nad Černými lesy: Archiv výtvarného umění, z.s. 2017, ISBN 978-80-905744-7-2.

Current projects:

Opera inedita Maxe Dvořáka. Institucionalizace, sebeidentifikace a afektivita v dějinách umění (GA ČR, reg. č. 25-17479S)

The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History V – příprava konference a sborníku