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Himmelmann, Nikolaus

    Image Credit: Archaeology

    Full Name: Himmelmann, Nikolaus

    Other Names:

    • Nikolaus Himmelmann-Wildschütz

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1929

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, ceramic ware (visual works), Classical, Greek pottery styles, pottery (visual works), and vase


    Overview

    Historian of classical Greek vases. Himmelmann studied at Marburg, Basel and Munich. His dissertation, completed in 1956, was on the Ilissos grave stele from the Kerimeikos. He taught at the universities of Marburg and Saarbrücken. In 1966 he moved to the university in Bonn. He retired from Bonn emeritus in 1994.


    Selected Bibliography

    [dissertation:] Studien zum Ilissos-Relief. Munich: Prestel 1956; [collected essays, English:] Reading Greek Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998; Die private Bildnisweihung bei den Griechen: zu den Ursprüngen des abendländischen Porträts. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001; Attische Grabreliefs. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1999; Alexandria und der Realismus in der griechischen Kunst. Tübingen: E. Wasmuth, 1983; edited, Festschrift für Friedrich Matz. Mainz: Zabern, 1962; Ideale Nacktheit. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1985; über Hirten-Genre in der antiken Kunst. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1980; Tieropfer in der griechischen Kunst. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1997.


    Sources

    Childs, William. “Preface,” and “Introduction.” Reading Greek Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. xv-xvii, and 3-21; [transcript] Nikolaus Himmelmann. Interviews with Art Historians, 1991-2002. Getty Research Institute, Malibu, CA.




    Citation

    "Himmelmann, Nikolaus." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/himmelmannn/.


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