Kurt Weitzmann
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Kurt Weitzmann(March 7, 1904,Kleinalmerode(Witzenhausen,nearKassel) – June 7, 1993,Princeton, New Jersey)[1]was a German turned American art historian who was a leading figure in the study ofLate AntiqueandByzantine artin particular.
He attended the universities ofMünster,WürzburgandViennabefore moving toPrincetonin 1935, due to Nazi persecution. He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture atSaint Catherine's MonasteryinEgypt.He was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Societyin 1964 and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1978.[2][3]
Works
[edit]- Greek mythology in Byzantine art, 1951
- Geistige Grundlagen und Wesen der makedonischen Renaissance, 1963
- Illustration roll and codex, 1947,21970
- "Studies in manuscript illumination"series
- TheJoshua Roll,1948
- The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria diCastelseprio,1952
- Ancient book illumination, 1959
- Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, 1970
- TheMonastery of St. Catherineat Mount Sinai, The Icons, I. 1976
- Studies in classical and Byzantine manuscript illumination, 1971
- Byzantine book illumination and ivories, 1980
- Byzantine liturgical Psalters and Gospels, 1980
- (with H. L. Kessler) TheFrescoesof theDuraSynagogue and Christian Art, 1990
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Notice de personne "Weitzmann, Kurt (1904-1993)"[Person notice "Weitzmann, Kurt (1904-1993)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 25 September 2019.Retrieved17 March2022.
- ^"APS Member History".search.amphilsoc.org.Retrieved2022-10-12.
- ^"Kurt Weitzmann".American Academy of Arts & Sciences.Retrieved2022-10-12.
External links
[edit]- Ekkart Sauser (1998). "Weitzmann, Kurt". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.).Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)(in German). Vol. 13. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 705–706.ISBN3-88309-072-7.
- http://arthistorians.info/weitzmannkArchived2019-06-08 at theWayback Machine
- Bibliography Kurt Weitzmann[permanent dead link]
- Estate Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler
Categories:
- 1904 births
- 1993 deaths
- German art historians
- American art historians
- Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- People from Witzenhausen
- 20th-century American historians
- Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
- German male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American male writers
- Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
- American male non-fiction writers
- German historian stubs
- European art historian stubs
- American art historian stubs
- Historians of Byzantine art
- Members of the American Philosophical Society