Dictionary of Art Historians

Gross, Walter Hatto

Full Name
Gross, Walter Hatto
Gender
male
Date Born
1913
Date Died
1984
Place Born
Heidelberg, Germany
Place Died
Hamburg, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Ancient Greek (culture or style)
Antique, the
Classical
Overview

Specialist in classical Greek and Roman art, influenced by structuralist school. Ausserplanmäßige Professor at Göttingen University (1952-1964), ordentliche Professor of Archaeology at the University of Giessen (1964-1968) and then Hamburg (1968-1979).

Selected Bibliography
Bildnisse Traians. 1940. (Vol. 2 in the series Das römische Herrscherbild) Iulia Augusta. Untersuchung zur Grundlegung einer Livia-Ikonographie. 1962. Zur Augustusstatu von Prima Porta. 1958.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 315-316.