Rudolf Wittkower
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Rudolf Wittkower was a German art historian. He was born in Berlin in 1901 and moved to London in 1934. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London from 1934 to 1956 and then at Columbia University from 1956 to 1969 where he was chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology. He died on 11 October 1971. He was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award posthumously in 1975.
[edit] Publications
- Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949)
- Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750 in the Penguin/Yale History of Art (1958, and revised editions)
- Bernini: the sculptor of the Roman Baroque (1966)
- Born under Saturn: The character and conduct of artists (1963) with Margot Wittkower
- Sculpture: Processes and Principles (1977) with Margot Wittkower
[edit] References
- Making Art History at Columbia: Meyer Schapiro and Rudolf Wittkower: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2003/witt.schapiro.html
- The Dictionary of Art Historians: http://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/wittkowerr.htm
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