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Zabelin, Ivan

Full Name: Zabelin, Ivan

Other Names:

  • Ivan Egorovich Zabelin

Gender: male

Date Born: 1820

Date Died: 1909

Place Born: Tver', Tver Oblast, Russia

Place Died: Moscow, Russia

Home Country/ies: Russia

Subject Area(s): archaeology, conservation (discipline), conservation (process), and Russian (culture or style)

Career(s): conservators (people in conservation)


Overview

Historian and archaeologist of Russian art, conservator and museum director. A student of Timofey Granovsky at the Moscow University, Zabelin’s early years were spent in the Kremlin Armory (1837-59). Here he wrote his early monograph on metalwork (1853). In 1859 he joined the St. Petersburg Archaeological Commission, serving until 1876. Between 1879-1888 he was Chair of the Society of Russian History and Antiquity, Moscow University. During that period, he also accepted the position of director of the History Museum (in Moscow) 1883-1908. His major book on Russian art and architecture, Russkoye iskusstvo, 1900, was produced during this final period. Methodologically, Zabelin’s early works blend the theories of Vissarion Belinsky and the German aesthetician Ludwig Feuerbach. His later writings adopt Positivistic arguments, prevalent in historic circles of the nineteenth century. Employing original documents and artifacts, rather than relying on generalized theory, he created a material history of Russia. Architectural details, everyday objects, written sources, etc. all formed the basis for his histories. He is significant for theorizing the relationship between Byzantine art and the old Russian, and how the latter assimilated its traditional representation into a feerer form. His work on wooden architecture and stone architecture remains influential today.


Selected Bibliography

Domashnii byt russkago naroda v xvi-xvii vekakh. 2 vols. Moscow, 1862.


Sources

I. E. Zabelin: 170 let so dnia rozhdeniia : materialy nauchnykh chtenii GIM, 29-31 oktiabria 1990 goda Moscow: Gos. ordena Lenina istoricheskii muzei, 1992; Formozov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. Istorik Moskvy I.E. Zabelin. Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1984; V. I. Shchepkin. I. Ye. Zabelin kak istorik russkogo iskusstva. Moscow, 1912; The Dictionary of Art




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Historian and archaeologist of Russian art, conservator and museum director. A student of Timofey Granovsky at the Moscow University, Zabelin’s early years were spent in the Kremlin Armory (1837-59). Here he wrote his early monograph on metalwork

Young, Andrew McLaren

Full Name: Young, Andrew McLaren

Gender: male

Date Born: 1913

Date Died: 1975

Place Born: Southend, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

Place Died: London, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): painting (visual works)


Overview

Whistler scholar and Richmond professor of Fine Art, University of Glasgow, 1965-75. Young was the son of Robert Comingo Young (1882-1946) a Presbyterian missionary, and Olga Parsons (1890-1939). He attended Jamaica College (to 1930), in Kingston, Jamaica where his father was assigned. He returned to Scotland where he continuing studying at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh and after 1932 at the University of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh the lectures David Talbot Rice convinced him to study art history. He joined the Tate Gallery as a temporary staff, without completing his degree in 1938. When World War II broke out the following year, Young joined the infantry. In 1940 he married Margaret Heath Halse (b. 1919). During the war he fought in Burma, north Africa, and Sicily where he was wounded in action. After his discharge Young joined the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham in 1946 under Thomas Bodkin. In 1949, he moved to the University of Glasgow to found department of art history and create a university art museum. His exhibition of Whistler paintings in 1960 focused on a more precise chronology of the artist’s work. In 1965 his achievements were rewarded with an honorary A. M. and a promotion to the first Richmond professor of Fine Art. His Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition followed in 1968. While attending the Royal Academy exhibition on J. M. W. Turner, he suffered a heart attack and died. He is buried at Keil Com Keil, Southend, Argyll. His catalogue raisonné of Whistler paintings was completed by and published in 1980.


Selected Bibliography

and MacDonald, Margaret, and Spencer, Robin, and Miles, Hamish. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler. 2 vols. New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art /Yale University Press, 1980; Glasgow at a Glance: an Architectural Handbook. edited, and Doak, Archibald, and Walker, David. Glasgow: Collins, 1965; Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928): Architecture, Design and Painting. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival Society, 1968; James McNeill Whistler: an Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works. London: Arts Council of Great Britain/English-Speaking Union of the United States, 1960 [Ipswich, Suffolk : W.S. Cowell].


Sources

Farr, Dennis. “Young, Andrew McLaren.” Dictionary of National Biography; [obituaries:] Farr, Dennis. “Professor Andrew McLaren Young.” Burlington Magazine117, No. 868. (July 1975): 487; Miles, Hamish. “Prof A. McLaren Young, Fine Art at Glasgow University.” The Times (London) February 12, 1975, p. 20.


Archives

  • Andrew McLaren Young Papers [In Process], University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections, ACCN3658.

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Whistler scholar and Richmond professor of Fine Art, University of Glasgow, 1965-75. Young was the son of Robert Comingo Young (1882-1946) a Presbyterian missionary, and Olga Parsons (1890-1939). He attended Jamaica College (to 1930), in Kingston,

Yates, Frances, Dame

Full Name: Yates, Frances, Dame

Other Names:

  • Dame Frances Yates

Gender: female

Date Born: 1899

Date Died: 1981

Place Born: Southsea, Portsmouth, England, UK

Place Died: Surbiton, Kingston-upon-Thames, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Renaissance


Overview

Historian and art historian of the Renaissance; Reader and Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute. Yates’ parents were James Alfred Yates, a naval architect, and Hannah Eliza Malpas. She attended Birkenhead High School 1913-17. Through part-time correspondence study, she was granted degree in French at University College, London, achieving firsts, in 1924, and an M.A. at the same institution on French Theater in 1926. Although raised in a family of modest income, Yates was left enough money to pursue a career of an independent scholar. Initially she wrote criticism and history on Shakespeare’s work. In 1936 she began to visit the Warburg Institute for her research. By 1941 she had joined the staff as a part-time employee, advancing to full-time lecturer and editor of publications in 1944. In 1947 she published The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century, a study of the artistic and literary activities. In the late 1940s and 50s, she concentrated on Renaissance philosophical traditions, the result of which was her 1964 Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. In 1956 she was made reader in the history of the Renaissance at the Warburg. Most important to the study of art history was her 1959 book, The Valois Tapestries, which traced the intellectual, religious and political traditions incorporated in those works of art. Her 1966 The Art of Memory, described how Roman oratorical devices gained religious significance in later centuries. She received a D. Lit. from London University in 1965, retiring as an honorary fellow from the Warburg, now part of the University of London, in 1967. Theatre of the World, 1969, examined Vitruvian tradition on Elizabethan public theaters. Yates’ mastery of occult literature was brought together in her collected essays, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, 1979. Methodologically, Yates represented scholarship in the Warburg tradition. She studied all aspects of a cultural event, preferring to envision it as cultural phenomenon rather than simply isolated objects. Her 1947 monograph on the French academies draws inspiration from Love’s Labour’s Lost, examining the political, religious, artistic and philosophical implications of the institutional commissions. Likewise, The Valois Tapestries uses evidence from art (major as well as the minor arts) to illuminate significance of the tapestries’ symbolism. Among her other, non-art historical scholarship, she is known for her work on Giordano Bruno. Her papers were left to the Warburg Institute.


Selected Bibliography

The Art of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1966; Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century. 2nd ed. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1975; The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century. (Studies of the Warburg Institute : 15) London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1947; Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1964.


Sources

Dictionary of National Biography 1981-85: 433-4; The Dictionary of Art; Vickers, Brian. “Frances Yates and the Writing of History.” Journal of Modern History 51, no. 2 (1979): 287-316; Frances A. Yates 1899-1981. London: Warburg Institute, 1982.


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Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen


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Historian and art historian of the Renaissance; Reader and Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute. Yates’ parents were James Alfred Yates, a naval architect, and Hannah Eliza Malpas. She attended Birkenhead High School 1913-17. Through part-time corre

Yashiro, Yukio

Full Name: Yashiro, Yukio

Gender: male

Date Born: 1890

Date Died: 1975

Home Country/ies: Japan


Overview

Director of the Institute for Art Research in Tokyo; Botticelli scholar. His archives are housed at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama and Kamakura.




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Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen


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Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen. "Yashiro, Yukio." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/yashiroy/.


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Director of the Institute for Art Research in Tokyo; Botticelli scholar. His archives are housed at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama and Kamakura.

Xyngopoulos, Andreas

Full Name: Xyngopoulos, Andreas

Other Names:

  • Andreas Xyngopoulos

Gender: male

Date Born: 1891

Date Died: 22 April 1979

Place Born: Athens, Region of Attica, Greece

Place Died: Athens, Region of Attica, Greece

Home Country/ies: Greece

Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Byzantine (culture or style), Christianity, Early Christian, Medieval (European), and religious art


Overview

Historian of Byzantine and early Christian Greek art and architecture. Xyngopoulos studied at the School of Philosophy, University of Athens, graduating in 1924. At the same time, he joined the Greek archaeological service (1920). He wrote his dissertation in 1937 from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, working under Charles Diehl and Gabriel Millet. Xyngopoulos continued his work at the archaeological service, primarily in the area of Macedonia, eventually becoming the supervisor (ephor) of Bysantine monutments. In 1940 he left to become professor of Byzantine archaeology, University of Thessaloniki. He retired in 1956. Xyngopoulos is most known for his discoveries of mosaics in Thessaloniki. He discovered the late 5th-century mosaics at Hosios David and others in the 14th-century Hagioi Apostoloi.


Selected Bibliography

He psephidote diakosmesis tou Naou ton Hagion Apostolon Thessalonikes. (Makedonike vivliotheke: 16) Thessaloniki: Hetaireia Makedonikon Spoudon, 1953; Thessalonique et la peinture macédonienne. (Hidryma Meleton Chersonesou tou Haimou: 7). Athens: M. Myrtidis, 1955; Copies, Drawings and Ornamental Designs by Photis Zachariou. Athens: Athens’ Editions, 1956; and Zachariou, Photis. Manual Panselinos.Athens: Athens’ Editions, 1956; The Mosaics of the Church of Saint Demetrius in Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki: [sn] 1969.


Sources

Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: an Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 50 mentioned; Tsougarakis, Dimitris. “Xyngopoulos, Andreas.” Dictionary of Art 33: 479; Krauthiemer, Richard. “Riflessioni sull’ architettura paleocristiana.” in Atti del VI Congresso Internationale di Archeologia Cristiana (1962). Studi di Antichità Cristiana 26: 567-79.




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Historian of Byzantine and early Christian Greek art and architecture. Xyngopoulos studied at the School of Philosophy, University of Athens, graduating in 1924. At the same time, he joined the Greek archaeological service (1920). He wrote his dis

Xenokrates

Full Name: Xenokrates

Other Names:

  • Xenokrates of Athens

Gender: male

Date Born: fl. 280 B.C.E.

Date Died: unknown

Place Born: Athens, Region of Attica, Greece

Home Country/ies: Greece (ancient)


Overview

The “father of art history” as termed by Bernhard Schweitzer. Xenocrates was probably a sculptor and perhaps the same as the artist who signed “Xenokrates” on the bases of three early third-century sculptures. Although he may have been born in Athens, his work follows of the school of Sikyon (of which Lysippos was the acme). Our knowledge of him is drawn exclusively from Pliny the Elder. Xenocrates was either a pupil of Euthykrates (Lysippos’ son) or Teisikrates, a pupil of Euthykarates. According to Pliny, Xenokrates wrote on Greek sculpture, and by inference of other remarks by Pliny, on painting and drawing as well. Xenokrates supposedly wrote “a volume about his art” and a treatise on the working of sculpture in metal. Using the tradition of Democritus, Xenocrates organized and ranked works of art, placing individual artworks in various categories in order to explain their development as a resolution of artistic problems. He observed that the arts strived toward perfection, each succeeding artist developing something new, such as proportion or treatment of details. His categories included symmetry (proportion), rhythm, workmanship and aesthetics (“the optic problem” in Schweitzer’s words). He did not, apparently, address subject matter or moral value, instead using technical criteria from his sculptor’s training. His was the core text Pliny used for art comments in his Natural History, particularly the evolution of art history. The acme of Xenokrates’ history was Lysippos, the master of the Sikyonian school, for sculpture, and Apelles for painting. The Romans of the late Republic revered him and adopted his criteria for taste. None of Xenokrates’ writings has survived today, though we can glean it through Pliny’s work. An important treatment of Xenokratre’s art history was written by the art historian/classicist Eugénie Sellers Strong in 1896.



Sources

Pliny the Elder. Natural History XXXIV.lvxxxiii, index to book XXXIV, and XXXV.lxviii; Strong, Eugénie, and Urlichs, Heinrich Ludwig. The Elder Pliny’s Chapters on the History of Art. Jex-Blake, K., trans. London, New York: Macmillan, 1896. Schweitzer, Bernhard. Der bildende Künstler und der Begriff des Künstlerischen in der Antike: eine Studie. (Sonderdruck…aus den Neuen Heidelberger Jahrbüchern, Jahrbuch 1925). Heidelberg: G. Koester, 1925; Schweizer, Bernard. “‘Xenokrates von Athen; Beiträge zur Geschichte der antiken Kunstforschung und Kunstanschauung.” Schriften der Konigsberger Gelehrten Gesellschaft, Geistwissenschaftliche Klasse, ix (1932): 1-52; Pollitt, J. J. “Introduction.” The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974, p. 3; Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, p. 2.




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The “father of art history” as termed by Bernhard Schweitzer. Xenocrates was probably a sculptor and perhaps the same as the artist who signed “Xenokrates” on the bases of three early third-century sculptures. Although he m

Wyatt, Matthew Digby

Full Name: Wyatt, Matthew Digby

Other Names:

  • M. Digby Wyatt

Gender: male

Date Born: 1820

Date Died: 1877

Place Born: Rowde, Wiltshire, England, UK

Place Died: Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Medieval (European)

Institution(s): Cambridge University


Overview

First Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University (1869). Wyatt was born to Matthew Wyatt, a barrister in Ireland and London police magistrate. He was born in owde, Wiltshire, England, UK, near Devizes. He studied at the architectural firm of his brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807-1880), beginning in 1836. That year he won a medal from the Institute of British Architects for an essay. He made a continental tour in 1844-46, collecting material for his book, published in 1848, Specimens of Geometrical Mosaics of the Middle Ages. Wyatt’s skill at art reporting was first manifest when he was assigned to write on the 1849 French salon by the Society of Arts. Wyatt was accompanied by the writer and promoter Henry Cole (1808-1882) who was intent on launching an industrial art exhibition for England. Wyatt reviewed the Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin the same year. Although he applauded Ruskin’s disgust at “shams” of architecture, the differences between Wyatt and Ruskin were already clear. As an architect, Wyatt was not averse to mixing styles, something common during the Victorian era, and Ruskin despised it. Cole was successful in masterminding the 1851 Great London Exhibition, of which Wyatt was made secretary by the executive committee. Wyatt exhibited both architectural drawings and reported on the Fair, for which he won medals and a special award from Prince Albert. In 1852 together with a number of other art-historical writers, including Anna Jameson he published The History of the Painters of All Nations. He and the architect Owen Jones (1809-1874) designed the fine arts decorations for the Crystal Palace’s second erection, representing the various nationalities, at Sydenham in 1854. He married Mary Nicholl in 1853. In 1855 he was elected surveyor for the East India Company, later receiving a knighthood for this work. That same year he was made honorary secretary for the Royal Institute of British Architects (held until 1859). In 1869, Cambridge University established the Slade professorship of fine arts at roughly the same time Oxford had appointed Ruskin first Slade professor of fine arts. Wyatt was selected to be its first recipient of the Cambridge chair and was awarded an honorary M. A. His inaugural lecture, titled “Fine Art: Its History, Theory and Practice,” was published in 1871. He died in 1877 at his castle, Dimlands, South Wales where he had gone to recuperate from the stress of his practice. He is buried at Usk, Monmouthshire.

Wyatt’s career was primarily that of an architect. He was responsible for restorations of buildings and memorial monuments and royal and government commissions with his brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt. As an architectural historian, he differed from Ruskin in that he supported the revival architectural work of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, for whom he took Ruskin to task for criticizing. He also disagreed with Ruskin in the value of the iron-and-glass Crystal Palace, correctly seeing it as the bellwether to modern architecture. But his writing style and theory were generally pedestrian compared to Ruskin.


Selected Bibliography

and Tymms, William R. The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times: illustrated by Borders, Initial Letters, and Alphabets. London: Day and Son, 1860; and Waring, J. B., and Jones, Owen. Examples of Weaving and Embroidery: Selected from the Royal and Other Collections. London: Day & Son, 1870s; The Fine Arts’ Courts in the Crystal Palace: Second Series, North-east Side. London: Crystal Palace Library, 1854; and Waring, John Burley, and Jameson, Anna, and Blanc, Charles. The History of the Painters of All Nations. London: John Cassell, 1852; and Jones, Owen, and Waring, John B., and Westwood, John Obadiah. The Grammar of Ornament. London: Day and Son, 1856; Specimens of the Geometrical Mosaic of the Middle Ages: with a Brief Historical Notice of the Art Founded on Papers Read before the Royal Institute of British Architects. London: Proprietor [of the Institute], 1848; An Address Delivered in the Crystal Palace on November 3, 1855 by M. Digby Wyatt, at the Opening of an Exhibition of Works of Art Belonging to the Arundel Society, and Consisting of Tracings and Drawings from Paintings by Giotto and other Early Italian Artists with some Illustrations of Greek Sculpture and of Ancient Ivory-Carving. London: Bell and Daldy, 1855; and Waring, John Burley. The Byzantine and Romanesque Court in the Crystal Palace. London: Crystal Palace Library, and Bradbury & Evans, 1854; and Bond, Edward A., and Thompson, E. M., and Coxe, H. O. and Lewis, S. S., and Dickinson, F. H. The Utrecht Psalter: Reports Addressed to the Trustees of the British Museum on the Age of the Manuscript. London: Williams and Norgate, 1874; Metal-work and its Artistic Design. London: Day & Son, 1852; An Attempt to Define the Principles which should Determine Form in the Decorative Arts: Read before The Society of Arts, April 21, 1852. London: G. Barday, 1852; [unsigned] “Principles and Treatment of Ironwork.” Journal of Design 4 (1850-51); Fine Art: Its History, Theory and Practice. Slade Lectures. London: Cambridge University Press, 1870.


Sources

Pevsner, Nikolaus. Matthew Digby Wyatt: the First Cambridge Slade professor of Fine Art: an Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950; P. W. “Wyatt, Sir Matthew Digby.” Dictionary of National Biography 21: 1097; Wyatt, Matthew Digby.” The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database http://kos.aahvs.duke.edu/creatorimages.php?creatorid=1247D26C-942A-F742-BAA5-37C0BF13B3AF.



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First Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University (1869). Wyatt was born to Matthew Wyatt, a barrister in Ireland and London police magistrate. He was born in owde, Wiltshire, England, UK, near Devizes. He studied at the architectural firm

Wurzbach, Alfred Wolfgang von

Full Name: Wurzbach, Alfred Wolfgang von

Other Names:

  • Alfred Wolfgang von Wurzbach-Tannenberg

Gender: male

Date Born: 1845

Date Died: 1915

Place Born: Lemberg, Austria

Place Died: Vienna, Vienna state, Austria

Home Country/ies: Austria

Subject Area(s): biography (general genre), Dutch (culture or style), Flemish (culture or style), Netherlandish, and Northern Renaissance

Career(s): art collectors


Overview

Dutch and Flemish authority, collector, author of artist’s dictionary. Wurzbach began his career by studying law, but gave it up somewhere around 1876 to devote his energies to art history and travel. After a period of writing novels and comedies, he moved to art-writing, issuing a small book, Die französischen Maler, (French Painters of the Eighteenth Century) in 1880. From 1880-83 he was art critic for the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung. During this time Wurzbach wrote two important book on northern rennaisance printmakers, an examination of the Master E.S. and Martin Schongauer. Toward the end of his life, he used his broad knowledge of Dutch and Flemish artists to issue the magisterial Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, a dictionary of artists in the low countries. As an art historian, some of his judgments have not proven correct. He was convinced, for example, that Master E.S. made forays into the Netherlands, something which can hardly be correct. Wurzbach inherited a large number of Dutch graphics and paintings, most from his wife’s family. In 1954, his son, the historian Alfred Wolfgang Wurzbach, Ritter Tannenberg (1879-1957), bequeathed them to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste.


Selected Bibliography

Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon: auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet, von Alfred von Wurzbach; mit mehr als 3000 Monogrammen. Vienna: Leipzig, Halm und Goldmann, 1906-11; Die französischen Maler des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts: eine Sammlung ihrer bedeutendsten Werke. Stuttgart: P. Neff, 1880; Martin Schongauer: Eine kritische Untersuchung seines Lebens und seiner Werke, nebst einem chronologischen Verzeichnisse seiner Kupferstiche. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen, 1880.


Sources

The Dictionary of Art; Deutsches Biographisches Jahrbuch. Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart, 1925




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Dutch and Flemish authority, collector, author of artist’s dictionary. Wurzbach began his career by studying law, but gave it up somewhere around 1876 to devote his energies to art history and travel. After a period of writing novels and comedies,

Würtenberger, Franzsepp

Full Name: Würtenberger, Franzsepp

Gender: male

Date Born: 1909

Home Country/ies: Germany


Overview


Selected Bibliography

Der Manierismus, Die europäische Stil des 16 Jahrhunderts. Vienna: A. Schroll, 1962.


Sources

Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire d l’art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986 p. 191




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Wulff, Oskar

Full Name: Wulff, Oskar

Other Names:

  • Oskar Konstantin Wulff

Gender: male

Date Born: 1864

Date Died: 1946

Place Born: St. Petersburg, Russia

Place Died: Berlin, Germany

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): art theory


Overview

Theoretician; professor in Berlin (1920s); Josef Rudolf Thomas Strzygowski student. Raised in Estonia in a German family, he studied Archaeology and Philology in Dorplat and Petersburg. In 1892 he studied art history in Leipzig under August Schmarsow, developing the dominant enthusiasms for iconography and the psychology of art. 1895-99 he was in Istanbul (Russian Archaeological Institute), and then in Berlin, first as a curatorial assistant in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and after 1917 as the successor to Karl Frey as professor at the University of Berlin. At the Berlin museum his colleagues in Wilhelm Vöge.


Selected Bibliography

Grunlinien und kritische Erörterungen zur Prinzipienlehre der bildenden Kunst. Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1917.


Sources

Dilly, 30; KMP, 23 mentioned; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 496-499.




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Theoretician; professor in Berlin (1920s); Josef Rudolf Thomas Strzygowski student. Raised in Estonia in a German family, he studied Archaeology and Philology in Dorplat and Petersburg. In 1892 he studied art history in