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.