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Technau, Werner

    Full Name: Technau, Werner

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1902

    Date Died: 1941

    Place Born: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Place Died: Russia

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, ceramic ware (visual works), ceramics (object genre), Classical, painting (visual works), pottery (visual works), and Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)


    Overview

    Specialist in classical Greek and Roman art, particularly pottery and ceramic painting. Assistant to Ludwig Curtius at the deutsches archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Institute, or DAI) in Rome 1929-1932. Taught at the University of Freiburg i.Br. from 1932-1941, towards the end as ausserordentlicher Professor. In 1936 Technau was selected to write the volume on the Greek pottery painter Exekias for the Bilder griechischer vasen series edited by J. D. Beazley and Paul Jacobsthal. He was killed on the Russian Front in 1941.


    Selected Bibliography

    Die klassische Figur der griechischen Kunst im 5. Jh. I. Vasenmalerei. 1927; “Bronzestatuette eines Knaben aus Pompeji” Antike 6 (1930): 249 ff.; Die Kunst der Römer. 1940. (published in the Rembrandt-Verlag series “Geschichte der Kunst”); Exekias. Bilder griechischer vasen 9. Leipzig: Heinrich Keller, 1936.


    Sources

    Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 287-288.




    Citation

    "Technau, Werner." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/technauw/.


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