Full Name: Rintelen, Friedrich
Other Names:
- Friedrich Rintelen
Gender: male
Date Born: 20 February 1881
Date Died: 04 May 1926
Place Born: Berlin, Germany
Place Died: Catania, Sicily, taly
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, and Renaissance
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.