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Schober, Arnold

    Full Name: Schober, Arnold

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1886

    Date Died: 1959

    Place Born: Podčetrtek, Slovenia

    Place Died: Graz, Steiermark, Austria

    Home Country/ies: Austria

    Subject Area(s): Anatolian (culture or style), Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, Classical, Early Western World, Greek sculpture styles, Near Eastern (Early Western World), Pergamene (culture or style), Roman (ancient Italian culture or period), and sculpture (visual works)


    Overview

    Specialist in ancient Greek and Roman art, particularly provincial Roman artifacts and relief sculptures of Pergamon. He was born in Windisch-Landsberg, Steiermark, Slovenia, or present day Podcetrek, Slovenia. Lecturer (1921-1927) and a.o. Professor (1927-1935) at the University of Vienna, Professor at the University of Graz (1935-1945).


    Selected Bibliography

    Die Römerzeit in österreich, 1935 (second edition, 1955). Die Kunst von Pergamon, 1951. Die römische Grabsteine von Noricum und Pannonien, Sonderschrift des öAI 10, 1923. Der landschaftliche Raum im hellenistischen Reliefbild, in: Wiener Jahrb. für Kunstgesch. 2, 1923, 36 ff. Vom griechischen zum römischen Relief, in: öJh 27, 1932, 46ff.


    Sources

    Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 232-233.




    Citation

    "Schober, Arnold." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/schobera/.


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