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Eichler, Fritz

    Full Name: Eichler, Fritz

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1887

    Date Died: 1971

    Place Born: Graz, Steiermark, Austria

    Place Died: Vienna, Vienna state, Austria

    Home Country/ies: Austria

    Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, and Classical


    Overview

    Specialist in ancient Greek and Roman art, particularly sculpture and bronze statuary. Curator of varying rank at the Kunsthistorischen Museums, Vienna, beginning in 1915, and director of the Antiquities Collection, 1935-1952. Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna (1953-1961), and director of the österreichische archäologische Institut (Austrian Archaeological Institute, or öAI) from 1953 to 1969.


    Selected Bibliography

    Die Reliefs des Heroon von Gjölbaschi-Trysa, 1950. Die Skulpturen des Heraions von Argos, öJh 19/20, 1919, 15 ff. Thronlehnenstützen des olympischen Zues des Phidias, öJh 45, 1960, 5 ff.


    Sources

    Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 2




    Citation

    "Eichler, Fritz." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/eichlerf/.


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