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