Full Name: Krauss, Friedrich
Gender: male
Date Born: 1900
Date Died: 1977
Place Born: Riga, Latvia
Place Died: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, architecture (object genre), Classical, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Specialist in ancient Greek architecture, particularly connected with the excavations and archictecture at Paestum. Originally trained as an engineer, he returned to school at the age of 27 to study ancient architecture. Taught as dozent at the Technical University of Munich, 1934-1938, called back to a professor’s chair in 1946 as the successor to Herbert Knackfuss. After 1945, concerned primarily with questions of architectural restoration in post-war Munich, particularly the Alten Pinakothek.
Selected Bibliography
Temenos für den Herrscherkult. AvP IX, 1937. [with R. Herbig] Der korinthisch-dorische Tempel am Forum von Paestum. DAA VIII, 1939. Heraion alla foce del Sele. vol. 1, 1951. Heraion alla foce del Sele. vol. 2, 1954. “Der Entwurf des Grundrisses,” Festschrift C. Weickert. 1955. 99ff. “Die Säulen des Zeustempels von Olympia,” Robert Boehringer. Eine Freundesgabe. 1957, 365 ff.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 280-282; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 222-25.