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Ackerman, Gerald M.

    Image Credit: Gerald M Ackerman

    Full Name: Ackerman, Gerald M.

    Other Names:

    • Gerald M. Ackerman

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1928

    Place Born: Alameda, CA, USA

    Home Country/ies: United States

    Subject Area(s): French (culture or style) and nineteenth century (dates CE)

    Institution(s): Florida State University


    Overview

    Gérôme and 19th-century French art scholar. Ackerman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 with a B.A. He moved to Munich where he studied at the Maximillien University under Hans Sedlmayr between 1956-1958 before returning to the United States where he began teaching as an art history lecturer at Bryn Mawr. He received his MFA at Princeton University in 1960, continuing for his Ph.D. in 1964 with a thesis, written under Erwin Panofsky and Rensselaer W. Lee, on the Trattato of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. Ackerman was appointed assistant professor at Stanford University in 1965. In 1971 he moved to Pamona College as associate professor, becoming full professor in 1976. He was Fulbright Professor, University of Leningrad, in 1980. Ackerman taught as Appleton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University in 1994.


    Selected Bibliography

    Introduction. Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1972; Vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Léon Gérôme. Courbevoie, Paris: ACR édition, 1986, English, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme: with a Catalogue Raisonné. New York : Sotheby’s Publications, 1986; and Parrish, Graydon. Charles Bargue drawing course: with the collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Paris: ACR Edition, 2003.


    Sources

    http://www.geraldmackerman.com [personal web page]; Who’s Who in American Art, 1980.



    Contributors: Lee Sorensen


    Citation

    Lee Sorensen. "Ackerman, Gerald M.." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/ackermang/.


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