Full Name: Kleiner, Gerhard
Gender: male
Date Born: 1908
Date Died: 1978
Place Born: Seelow, Brandenburg, Germany
Place Died: Mileto, Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, and Classical
Overview
Specialist in classical Greek art and its subsequent influence on Renaissance art. Kleiner wrote his dissertation under Ernst Buschor. Ordentliche (full) Professor at Hamburg University, 1950-1952. Second Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul (German Archaeological Institute, or DAI) 1954-1956. Professor at the University of Frankfurt, 1956-. Led excavation efforts at Milet in the final years of his life. His students included Helga von Heintze.
Selected Bibliography
Tanagrafiguren. 1942; Bildnis Alexander des Großen. 1951; Die Begegnungen Michelangelos mit der Antike. 1950; Die Inspiration des Dichters. 1949; Alt Milet. 1966.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 305-306.