Rudolf Wittkower
Rudolf Wittkower | |
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Born | Berlin, Germany | 22 June 1901
Died | 11 October 1971 New York City, NY, U.S. | (aged 70)
Occupation | Art historian |
Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the United States. Despite having a British father who stayed in Germany after his studies, he was born and raised in Berlin.[1][2]
Early life
Wittkower was born in Berlin to Henry Wittkower (1865–1942) and Gertrude Ansbach (Wittkower) (1876–1965).[1]
Career
Rudolf Wittkower moved to London in 1933 with his wife Margot Holzmann because they were both Jewish and were fleeing Nazi Germany.[3] He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London from 1934 to 1956, was appointed Durning Lawrence professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London in 1949 and then moved to the United States to work at Columbia University from 1956 to 1969 where he was chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology.
Among Wittkower's books were monographs on
Wittkower was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959 and the American Philosophical Society in 1971.[5][6] He was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award posthumously in 1975 for his book Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy.[7]
Wittkower died on 11 October 1971.
Selected publications
- Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949)
- Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque (1955)
- The Arts in Western Europe: Italy in New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 1 (1957), pp. 127–53
- Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750 (Penguin/Yale History of Art, 1958, and revised editions)
- Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists (1963, co-authored with Margot Wittkower)
- The Divine Michelangelo (1964, co-authored with Margot Wittkower)
- Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy (1974)
- Sculpture: Processes and Principles (1977, co-authored with Margot Wittkower)
Bibliography
Inline references
- ^ OCLC 911730160. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- .
- OCLC 911730160. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- S2CID 195049595.
- ^ "Rudolf J. Wittkower". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ISBN 0975565427.
General references
- ISSN 0162-3893. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- Preprinted: .
- David Rosand. "Making Art History at Columbia: Meyer Schapiro and Rudolf Wittkower". Columbia Magazine.
- Howard, Deborah. "Four Centuries of Literature on Palladio", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 39, No. 3 (October 1980), 224–241.
External links
- Henry Millon, “Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism: Its Influence on the Development and Interpretation of Modern Architecture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 31, no. 2 (1972): 83–91.
- J. S. Ackerman, “Rudolf Wittkower’s Influence on the History of Architecture,” Source 8, no. 4, and 9, no. 1 (Summer/Fall 1989): 87–90.
- J. Montagu and J. Connors, “Rudolf Wittkower, 1901–1971,” in Art and Architecture in Italy 1600–1750 by R. Wittkower (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 1:ixff.
- U. Wendland, “Rudolf Wittkower,” Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil (Munich: Saur, 1999), 779–90.
- G. Romano, Storie dell’arte: Toesca, Longhi, Wittkower, Previtali (Rome: Donzelli, 1998), 65–92.
- Alina Payne, Rudolf Wittkower, 1994 and 2008; traduzione di Francesco Peri, Rudolf Wittkower, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2011.
- Daniel Sherer, "Panofsky on Architecture: Iconology and the Interpretation of Built Form, 1915-1956," Part I, History of Humanities 5 (2019), 189ff: section 1: "Panofsky vs. Wittkower: Independence and Interdependence of Architecture in the Aesthetic Field."
- Finding aid to Rudolf Wittkower papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.