Full Name: Schuchhardt, Walter-Herwig
Gender: male
Date Born: 1900
Date Died: 1976
Place Born: Hanover, Germany
Place Died: Freiburg im Breisgau, Hesse, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient European, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, Classical, Early Western World, Greek (modern), Mediterranean (Early Western World), prehistoric, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Specialist in ancient Greek and prehistoric art, particularly sculpture and art of the Parthenon period (fifth century B.C.). Professor of Art History at the University of Giessen (1934-1936) and the University of Freiburg i.B. (1936-1968). Wrote his dissertation and promotionsschrift on the Parthenon friezes.
Selected Bibliography
for complete bibliography of W.H. Schuchardt, see “Alkamenes” 126.BWPr (1977) 61 ff. “Zu Leben und Werk: H.v. Steuben” Gnomon 48, 1976, 827 ff.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 278-279.