Full Name: Technau, Werner
Gender: male
Date Born: 1902
Date Died: 1941
Place Born: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Place Died: Russia
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, ceramic ware (visual works), ceramics (object genre), Classical, painting (visual works), pottery (visual works), and Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
Overview
Specialist in classical Greek and Roman art, particularly pottery and ceramic painting. Assistant to Ludwig Curtius at the deutsches archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Institute, or DAI) in Rome 1929-1932. Taught at the University of Freiburg i.Br. from 1932-1941, towards the end as ausserordentlicher Professor. In 1936 Technau was selected to write the volume on the Greek pottery painter Exekias for the Bilder griechischer vasen series edited by J. D. Beazley and Paul Jacobsthal. He was killed on the Russian Front in 1941.
Selected Bibliography
Die klassische Figur der griechischen Kunst im 5. Jh. I. Vasenmalerei. 1927; “Bronzestatuette eines Knaben aus Pompeji” Antike 6 (1930): 249 ff.; Die Kunst der Römer. 1940. (published in the Rembrandt-Verlag series “Geschichte der Kunst”); Exekias. Bilder griechischer vasen 9. Leipzig: Heinrich Keller, 1936.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 287-288.