Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Rintelen, Friedrich
Other Names
Friedrich Rintelen
Gender
Date Born
20 February 1881
Date Died
04 May 1926
Place Born
Place Died
Home Country
Overview
Giotto scholar and professor of art, Basle. His undergraduate students at Basle included Hans R. Hahnloser. His methodology was carried on by Theodor Hetzer. Rintelen's opinions were so valued they were pencilled in as notes by Richard Offner in Offner's copy of the 1937 catalog Mostra Giottesca.
Selected Bibliography
[bibliography:] Dvorák, Max. Idealism and Naturalism in Gothic Art. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967, p. 221, works cited only; Giotto und die Giotto-Apokryphen. Munich: Müller, 1912; Reden und Aufsätze. Edited by Edith Rintelin. Basel: Schwabe, 1927.
Sources
German Essays on Art History. Gert Schiff, ed. New York: Continuum, 1988, p. xxxix mentioned; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. 2nd. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2007, pp. 348-349; 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.