Memorial for the Outcasts and Victims of the Institute of Art History

On the campus of the University of Vienna in the 9th district, a walkable memorial was opened on 10 October 2008 in front of the Institute of Art History, commemorating those art historians who were expelled, persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime. The memorial was designed by Hans Buchwald based on an idea by Wolfgang Georg Fischer. The memorial consists of a ring-shaped table split into two parts. Some of the chairs are positioned so closely to the table that they cannot be occupied. They remain forever unoccupied. Only partial seating is possible. A glass panel between the torn halves of the table shows the names of more than 70 members of the institute who were excluded, expelled and murdered.