Full Name: Reichhold, Karl W.
Other Names:
- Karl Reichhold
Gender: male
Date Born: 1902
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): ancient, archaeology, ceramic ware (visual works), Classical, painting (visual works), pottery (visual works), vase, and 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.