Dictionary of Art Historians

Kleiner, Gerhard

Full Name
Kleiner, Gerhard
Gender
male
Date Born
1908
Date Died
1978
Place Born
Seelow, Germany
Place Died
Milet
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Ancient Greek (culture or style)
Antique, the
Classical
Overview

Specialist in classical Greek art and its subsequent influence on Renaissance art. Kleiner wrote his dissertation under Ernst Buschor. Ordentliche (full) Professor at Hamburg University, 1950-1952. Second Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul (German Archaeological Institute, or DAI) 1954-1956. Professor at the University of Frankfurt, 1956-. Led excavation efforts at Milet in the final years of his life. His students included Helga von Heintze.

Selected Bibliography
Tanagrafiguren. 1942; Bildnis Alexander des Großen. 1951; Die Begegnungen Michelangelos mit der Antike. 1950; Die Inspiration des Dichters. 1949; Alt Milet. 1966.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 305-306.