Full Name: Bulle, Heinrich
Gender: male
Date Born: 1867
Date Died: 1945
Place Born: Bremen, Germany
Place Died: Bad Kohlgrub, Hesse, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Specialist in the sculpture and art of ancient Greece. Professor at the University of Würzburg 1909-1935. His masterwork, Der schöne Mensch im Altertum, appeared in 3 successive editions, and broke with (til then) traditional art history by examining how certain artistic themes were handled and changed over time.
Selected Bibliography
Der schöne Mensch im Altertum, 1898.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 168-169.