Dictionary of Art Historians

Horn, Rudolf

Full Name
Horn, Rudolf
Gender
male
Date Born
1903
Date Died
1984
Place Born
Waldangelloch, Baden, Germany
Place Died
Göttingen, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Ancient Greek (culture or style)
Antique, the
Classical
Greek sculpture styles
sculpture (visual works)
Overview

Specialist in classical greek sculpture. Particularly concerned with the differentiation between the High and Late Hellenistic periods. Called to a professorship in Classical Archaeology at the University of Göttingen in 1941, but did not assume the position until 1945, in the meantime serving in the Foreign Office during World War II. Educated many future archaeologists and art historians of classical Greece, although not affiliated or responsible for a particular "school" or method.

Selected Bibliography
"Stehende weibliche Gewandstatuten in der hellenistischen Plastik" RM 2. Ergh. (1931); "Hellenistische Köpfe" RM 52 (1937): 140ff. and RM 53 (1938): 70ff.; "Das hellenistische Bildnis" Gnomon 24 (1952): 241ff.; "Hellenistische Bildwerke auf Samos" Samos XII (1972)
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 276-277.