Tietze supported modern art,Dieter Bogner, "Hans Tietze und die moderne Kunst." Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 33, No. 1 (December 1980), pp. 13-16. joining the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der modernen Kunst in Wien (Association for the Promotion of Modern Art in Vienna), but also wrote groundbreaking studies on Albrecht Dürer and Venetian renaissance art. For instance, in Tintoretto: The Paintings and Drawings (1948) the Venetian painter is portrayed as a Baroque artist and the dominant figure in the transition from the High Renaissance, as a "modern artist, clothed in the grab of the Classic Art".KIRKUS Review: TINTORETTO: The Paintings and Drawings
