Dictionary of Art Historians

Diez, Ernst

Full Name
Diez, Ernst
Other Names
Ernst Diez
Gender
male
Date Born
1878
Date Died
1961
Place Born
Lölling, Austria
Place Died
Vienna, Austria
Home Country
Austria
Subject Area
Byzantine (culture or style)
Medieval (European)
Overview

Byzantinist, Josef Rudolf Thomas Strzygowski student and professor at Bryn Mawr College, 1939-1943. 1919 Lecturer, University of Vienna; 1926-1939 professor at Bryn Mawr; 1939-1943 returned to Vienna; Associate Professor, 1943-1949 first professor of art history in Ankara. Together with Curt Glaser and Ernst Grosse, Diez established the theoretic foundation for Asian art in the German-speaking world (Metzler).

Selected Bibliography
and Otto Demus. Byzantine Mosaics in Greece, Hosios Lucas and Daphni. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931.
Sources
Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, pp. 23, 50 mentioned; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1999, pp. 59-61.