Martina Pippal is an Austrian art historian and a painter and sculptor.
Biographical sketch
Martina Pippal was born 1957 in Vienna as the daughter of the painter Hans Robert Pippal, and the architect Eugenie Pippal-Kottnig. Growing up in the studio of her parents she early acquired skills in several artistic techniques. In addition to her artistic inclination, she got interested in the socioeconomic and political backgrounds of the conditions of artistic production. She started university studies in art history, classical archeology, history and theology at the University of Vienna, and acquired her PhD in Art History 1981 there. Since her Habilitation 1991 she works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna. Around 1995 she started her artistic career as a painter and sculptor.
Pippal, M.: Mascha und Margarita – eine Reise ins Innere der Kunst: zu “Las Meninas” von Diego Velázquez. Vienna: Violetta Ritterling, 2014,.
Pippal, M.: Movements and Being Moved. Painting and Sculpture after 1897, in: H. Androsch, ed.: 'Austria. Past, Present, Future'. Vienna: Brandstätter, 2010. pp. 251–289,.
Pippal, M.: Soshana in the Context of Austrian Modernism, in: Bäumer, A. and Schueller, A., eds.: 'Soshana. Life and Work'. Vienna/New York: Springer, 2010, pp. 52–117,.
Pippal, M.: Linde Waber – artist, weaver of artistic networks, mentor, mater familias, in: Deppe, R. et al., eds., 'Linde tröstet Schubert', exhibition catalogue. Vienna: Mandelbaum 2010, pp. 6–8,.
Pippal, M.: Der Einband and Die malerische Ausstattung des Sakramentars, in: 'Das Sakramentar Heinrichs II. – Handschrift Clm 4456 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München', commentary volume of the facsimile edition. Gütersloh/Munich: Faksimile Verlag 2010, pp. 29–38 and 51–124.
Pippal, M.: Gustav Mahler und die bildende Kunst – Geschichte einer Beziehung, in: E. Partsch et al., eds.: 'Contextualizing Mahler – Mahler im Kontext'. Vienna: Böhlau 2010, pp. 257–281,.
Pippal, M.: Kunst des Mittelalters – Eine Einführung: Von den Anfängen der christlichen Kunst bis zum Ende des Hochmittelalters, Vienna: UTB Böhlau, 3rd ed. 2010,.
Pippal, M.: Wie im Zirkus: Erinnerungen eines Künstlerkindes, Vienna: Violetta Ritterling 2008,.
Pippal, M., Rychlik, O., Voggeneder, E.: Hans Robert Pippal: Zwischen Innovation und Tradition, Vienna: Böhlau 2003,.
Pippal, M.: A short History of Art in Vienna, Munich: C.H. Beck 2000,.
Pippal, M.: Das Perikopenbuch von St. Erentrud: Theologie und Tagespolitik, Vienna: Holzhausen 1997,.
Pippal, M.: Die Pfarrkirche von Schöngrabern: Eine ikonologische Untersuchung ihrer Apsisreliefs, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences 1991, 2nd ed. Auflage 1996,.
Fillitz, H., Pippal, M.: Schatzkunst: Die Goldschmiede- und Elfenbeinarbeiten aus österreichischen Schatzkammern des Hochmittelalters, Salzburg: Residenz-Verlag 1987,.
