Full Name: Hempel, Eberhard
Gender: male
Date Born: 1886
Date Died: 1967
Place Born: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Place Died: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Baroque, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Architectural historian of the baroque period. Author of first modern monograph on Borromini (1924) (Montagu/Connors).
Selected Bibliography
Baroque art and architecture in central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland. Painting and sculpture: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; architecture: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. [Translated from the German by Elisabeth Hempel and Marguerite Kay]. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965; Geschichte der deutschen Baukunst. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1949; Michael Pacher.Vienna: A. Schroll, 1931; Der Zwinger zu Dresden: Grundzuge und Schicksal seiner künstlerischen Gestaltung. Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1961.
Sources
Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 169-71; [mentioned] Jennifer Montagu and Joseph Connors. “Rudolf Wittkower 1901-1971.” Introduction to Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600-1750. 6th edition, volume 1, Painting in Italy. Pelican History of Art. pp. ix.