Dictionary of Art Historians

Karo, Georg

Full Name
Karo, Georg
Gender
male
Date Born
1872
Date Died
1963
Place Born
Venice, Italy
Place Died
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Ancient Greek (culture or style)
Antique, the
Classical
Cretan
Creto-Mycenaean
Early Western World
Late Helladic
Mediterranean (Early Western World)
Mycenaean
Overview

Specialist in Cretan and Mycenean art. Karo studied archaeology at the University in Bonn, writing his dissertation under Georg Loeschcke. Professor of Archaeology at Halle, 1920-1930. Director of Deutsche Archäologische Institut in Athens, 1912-1916, 1930-1936.

Selected Bibliography
Die Schachtgräber von Mykenai, (2 vols.) 1930, 1933. Greifen am Thron, 1959.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 181-182.