Full Name: Körte, Gustav
Gender: male
Date Born: 1852
Date Died: 1917
Place Born: Berlin, Germany
Place Died: Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Antique, the, Classical, and Etruscan (culture or style)
Overview
Specialist in Etruscan art and culture. Professor of Archaeology at Rostock University 1881-1905, Göttingen University, 1907-1917. notes about Körte’s opinions on Giotto appear in Richard Offner‘s annotated catalog of the 1937 Mostra Giottesca.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 102; Ladis, Andrew. “The Unmaking of a Connoisseur.” in, Offner, Richard. A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p,19, note 1.