Dictionary of Art Historians

Reichhold, Karl W.

Full Name
Reichhold, Karl W.
Other Names
Karl Reichhold
Gender
male
Date Born
1902
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
ancient
archaeology
ceramic ware (visual works)
Classical
painting (visual works)
pottery (visual works)
vase
vase paintings (visual works)
Overview

Archaeologist and historian of classical vase painting. In 1900 he and Adolf Furtwängler renewed the excavations at the temple of Aphaia in Aigina. Reichhold and Furtwängler's Griechische Vasenmalerei raised the standard for accurate drawings of vase paintings to an exceptional level.

Selected Bibliography
Skizzenbuch griechischer Meister; ein Einblick in das griechische Kunststudium auf Grund der Vasenbilder. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1919; edited, Furtwängler, Adolf. Griechische Vasenmalerei: eine Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder aus dem gleichnamigen grossen Werke. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1924.
Sources
[mentioned] Rouet, Philippe. Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases: Beazley and Pottier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.