Otakar Hostinský

Otakar Hostinský ( born January 2, 1847 in Martinoves; † January 19, 1910 in Prague) was Czech aestheticians and musicologists, literary critic and art theorist.

Life

Hostinský was the son of a manager of a sugar factory. After attending grammar school in Prague's New Town in 1865, he studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague and Munich. In 1869 he wrote his doctoral thesis. After his training, he wrote for several magazines and worked on Almanch the Czech students. 1874 to 1876 he took part in Ask an educator by nobles in Austria, Germany and Italy. 1877 Hostinský lecturer at the University of Prague. At the same time he held art history lectures at the Academy of the painting, the art industrial school and at the Prague Conservatory. 1883 appointed him one university professor.

Teaching

He dedicated his whole life to the organization of cultural life. He wrote articles for the magazines Dalibor, Hudební listy Pokrok, Lumír, Osvěty Květy, Národní listy and others, public lectures, including in the artists' discussion club ( Umělecká beseda ). He propagated modern styles of music, especially works of Richard Wagner and Smetana. Hostinský was CEO of Czech Slavic Ethnographic Association and the Philosophical unit.

His aesthetic intuition was based on Johann Friedrich Herbart. He enriched his knowledge through research in numerous publications, including scientific, artistic and historical. He stressed the principle of the wealth of ideas and patriotism in art and represented the coexistence of realism and romanticism.

Works

The results of his work he published in German language estetiku in Herbart's aesthetics and in Czech in the book O významu praktických Idei Herbartových per všeobecnou. In addition, he has written numerous works of music history, such as on Smetana, Fibich and Wagner, but also including research on the national songs. He is also the author of the libretto for the opera The Bride of Messina by Zdeněk Fibich.

German -language publications

  • The doctrine of musical sounds, 1879
  • The Musical- Beauty and the total work of art from the standpoint of formal aesthetics, 1877
  • Herbart 's aesthetics represented in its basic parts source moderately and explains Hamburg - Leipzig 1891
  • About the importance of the practical ideas of Herbart for the general aesthetics, 1883
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