Dictionary of Art Historians

Hartwig, Paul

Full Name
Hartwig, Paul
Other Names
Paul Hartwig
Gender
male
Date Born
1859
Date Died
1919
Place Born
Pirna, Germany
Place Died
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
ceramic ware (visual works)
pottery (visual works)
vase
Overview

Vase scholar. Hartwig, who was the first to attribute vases to an anonymous master (Rouet). Harwig's work was highly influential. The earliest work of J. D. Beazley on the Kleophrades Painter clearly owes its inspiration to Hartwig (Oakley).

Selected Bibliography

Meisterschalen der Blüthezeit des strengen rotfigurigen Stils, 1893.

Sources

Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 130-131; [mentioned] Rouet, Philippe. Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases: Beazley and Pottier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; Oakley, John Howard. "Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases: Beazley and Pottier (review)." American Journal of Philology 124 no. 2 (2003): 307.