Richard Krautheimer

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Richard Krautheimer (6 July 1897 in Fürth (Franconia), Germany – 1 November 1994 in Rome, Italy) was a German art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist.

Biography

Krautheimer was born in Germany in 1897, the son of Nathan Krautheimer (1854–1910) and Martha Landmann (Krautheimer) (1875–1967). Krautheimer's cousin,

Halle under Paul Frankl in 1925 with the title Die Kirchen der Bettelorden in Deutschland (1240–1340). Frankl's work remained a strong influence for Krautheimer throughout his life. Willibald Sauerländer
contends that it was Krautheimer who later introduced Frankl's work to the United States. The systematizing methodology of Krautheimer's mentor, Frankl, "never left Krautheimer" according to Willibald Sauerlander.

In 1927 he completed his

Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958[2] and the American Philosophical Society in 1965.[3]

Krautheimer next engaged in what he called his most difficult book to research and write: the survey volume on early Christian architecture for the

Palazzo Zuccari. His wife had preceded him in death seven years before. His many students at New York University included Howard Saalman, Leo Steinberg, James S. Ackerman, Frances Huemer, Marvin Trachtenberg
, Slobodan Curcic, and Dale Kinney.

He died on 1 November 1994 and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.[4]

Publications

  • [dissertation] Die Kirchen der Bettelorden in Deutschland, 1240–1340. Cologne, 1925.
  • [habilitation] Mittelalterliche Synagogen. Marburg-Wittenberg, 1927.
  • Mittelalterliche Synagogen. Berlin: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, 1927.
  • Zur venezianischen Trecentoplastik. Marburg an der Lahn: Verlag des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars der Universität Marburg an der Lahn, 1926–1935.
  • Opicinus de Canistris; Weltbild und Bekenntnisse eines avignonesischen Klerikers des 14. Jahrhunderts. London: The Warburg Institute, 1936.
  • "The Carolingian Revival of Early Christian Architecture." Art Bulletin 24 (1942): 1–38. Reprinted in a slightly revised version in Studies in Early Christian, Medieval and Renaissance Art (above): 203–56.
  • "Sancta Maria Rotunda." Arte del Primo millennio, Atti del II convegno per lo studio dell'arte dell'alto medio evo tenuto presso l'Università di Pavia nel settembre 1950. Edited by Edoardo Arslan. Turin: 1953: 21–7.
  • and Krautheimer-Hess, Trude. Lorenzo Ghiberti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956
  • "Mensa-coemeterium-martyium." Cahiers archeologiques 11 (1960): 15–40.
  • The architecture of Sixtus III: a fifth-century renascence?. New York University Press, 1961.
  • "Riflessioni sull'architettura paleocristiana." In Atti del VI Congresso Internationale di Archeologia Cristiana, Ravena 23–30 settembre 1962. Studi di Antichità Christiana 26. Vatican City: 1965, pp. 567–79.
  • Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Baltimore: Penguin Books,1965.
  • "Introduction to an Iconography of Medieval Architecture." Journal of the Courtald and Warburg Institutes 5 (1942): 1–33, reprinted in: Studies in Early Christian, Medieval and Renaissance Art. Edited by James S. Ackerman et al. New York: New York University Press, 1969.
  • Ghiberti's Bronze Doors. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
  • Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The early Christian Basilicas of Rome (IV–IX Centuries). Vatican City: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1937–1977.
  • Rome: Profile of a City, 312–1308. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
  • Three Christian Capitals: Topography and Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
  • The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655–1667. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.

References

  1. ^ "History of the Census" In: http://www.census.de/census/project?set_language=en
  2. ^ "Richard Krautheimer". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  3. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  4. ^ "Notable Graves | Non-Catholic Cemetery".

Sources

Further reading

  • Herklotz, Ingo. Richard Krautheimer in Deutschland. Aus den Anfängen einer wissenschaftlichen Karriere 1925–1933 (= Academia Marburgensis. Band 17). Waxmann: Münster 2021.
  • Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, pp. 69–70.
  • 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. 18; pp. 66; 70, 81, 87 cited, 92 [his method of Carolingian art research discussed].
  • Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, pp. 435, 542.
  • Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 225–28.
  • Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 377–86.
  • Sauerländer, Willibald. "Richard Krautheimer:" Burlington Magazine 137 (February 1995): 119–20.
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