Full Name: Möbius, Hans
Gender: male
Date Born: 1895
Date Died: 1977
Place Born: Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Place Died: Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient European, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Ancient Italian, Early Western World, funerary art, funerary sculpture, Greek (modern), Mediterranean (Early Western World), prehistoric, Roman (ancient Italian culture or period), and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Specialist in prehistoric and ancient Greek and Roman art, particularly Greek funerary sculpture. Scientific assistant to E. Buschor in Athens, 1921-1928. Curator at the State museum in Kassel, 1928-1943. Professor at the University of Würzburg, 1943-196?). From 1946 until his death, Möbius worked on the comprehensive corpus of east grecian funerary sculpture (continuing the work of Ernst Pfuhl).
Selected Bibliography
[complete bibliography:] H. Möbius. Studia Varia. 1967 xiii-xv; über Form und Bedeutung der sitzenden Gestalt in der Kunst des Orients und der Griechen, in: AM 41, 1916 [1927], 119 ff.; Die Ornamente der griechischen Grabstelen. 1929; “Zu den Stelen von Daskyleion” in: AA 1971, 442 ff.; edited, Pfuhl, Ernst. Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs. 2 vols. Mainz am Rhein: Von Zabern, 1977, 1979.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 264-265.