Richard Ettinghausen
Richard Ettinghausen (February 5, 1906 – April 2, 1979)
Education
Ettinghausen was born in
Career
From 1929 to 1931, he worked on the Islamic collection of the
In 1934, due to the rise of the
In 1944, Ettinghausen left Michigan to join the Freer Gallery.
In 1966, Ettinghausen left the Freer to become Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Islamic Art at the Institute of Fine Art, New York University.[3] Together with the Middle East historian R. Bayly Winder he founded the Kevorkian Center the same year at NYU.
Three years later, he also became the Consultative Chairman of the Islamic Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Metropolitan, he was instrumental in installing the galleries to their sensitive arrangement. His text, with Oleg Grabar, The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250 in the Pelican History of Art series, appeared posthumously in 1987.
Ettinghausen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 and the American Philosophical Society in 1976.[5][6] That same year, he was awarded the Pour le Merite by the German government.[2]
Both a
Ettinghausen died of cancer in Mercer, New Jersey on 2 April 1979.[2] The library in the Kevorkian Center is named in his honor.
Posthumous
After his death, Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi acquired Ettinghausen's private library. These works were then donated to the newly built House of Wisdom in Sharjah.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "An Alphabetized list of Non-Zarathushtrians authors - E". Archived from the original on 2012-12-17.
- ^ a b c d e f Grabar 1979, p. 281.
- ^ a b Grabar 1979, p. 281-282.
- ^ Grabar 1979, p. 282.
- ^ "Richard Ettinghausen". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ^ "Sharjah Ruler donates 12,000 rare books on Islamic art and architecture to House of Wisdom". TheNationalNews.com. 2021-08-30. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
External links
Bibliography
- Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 89
- Porada, Edith. "Richard Ettinghausen." Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society 1979 pp. 58–61
- Cook, Joan. "Richard Ettinghausen, Teacher, A Leading Islamic Art Authority, Planned Turkish Exhibition, Taught at Princeton." New York TimesApril 3, 1979, p. C18
- Grabar, Oleg (1979). "Richard Ettinghausen". Artibus Asiae. 41, No. 4: 281–284.