Fiske Kimball

Fiske (Sidney ) Kimball ( born December 8, 1888 in Newton (Massachusetts ); † August 14, 1955 in Munich ) was an American architect, architectural historian and museum director.

Life

Kimball studied at Harvard University, and graduated from there with a Masters Degree in Architecture. He taught in the sequence at the University of Illinois and at the University of Michigan where he earned his doctorate in 1915. In 1919 he was appointed head of department of Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia. In 1923 he established the Institute of Fine Arts at the New York University. In 1925 he was appointed director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Posistion, which he held until January 1955.

Kimball was a leading proponent of preservation and an advocate of the classical tradition of the United States. He played a leading role in the restoration of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home country and the Stratford Hall Plantation in Virginia. Kimball's own house Shack Mountain is located near Monticello. Kimball began to sink in the dispute over the Jefferson Memorial for John Russell Pope's neoclassical design one.

Kimball's wife, Marie Goebel Kimball (1889-1955) wrote a three -volume biography of Jefferson.

Publications (selection )

• Thomas Jefferson, architect, Original Designs in the Collection of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., 1916
• A History of Architecture, 1918 ( with George Harold Edgell )
• Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic, 1922
• American Architecture, 1928
• Mr. Samuel McIntire, Carver: The architect of Salem, 1940
• The Creation of the Rococo, 1943