Kurt Weitzmann

Kurt Weitzmann ( born March 7, 1904 in Kleinalmerode; † 7 June 1993 Princeton ) was a German art historian.

Life

Weitzmann, son of the Board of Education William Weitzmann and the piano teacher Antoine Keiper, attended the grammar school from 1914 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, in 1923, he completed his education with the school leaving examination. In the summer of 1923, he enrolled in a first for the law school at the University of Münster. The following semester he changed the subject area and studied henceforth art history, classical archeology, history and philosophy at the University of Münster (winter semester 1923/24 ), the University of Würzburg (summer semester 1924), the University of Vienna (summer semester 1925 and winter semester 1925/26 ) and the University of Berlin (winter semester 1924/25, summer semester 1926 and winter semester 1928/29 ). There he was one of the students of Adolph Goldschmidt, where he received his doctorate in 1930 with the thesis " The ivory caskets from the Middle Byzantine period ." The dissertation was the first of two volumes of the corpus work for the ivories under the title: " The Byzantine ivory sculptures of the X. -XIII. Century, Vol 1 " published in 1930 boxes. 1934 published Weitzmann and Goldschmidt the second volume of Corpusweks: " The Byzantine ivory sculptures of the X. -XIII. Century, Volume 2: Reliefs ".

1930-1934 Weitzmann was an employee of the Archaeological Institute of the German Reich and editor of the Yearbook of the Institute. 1930/31 received the travel grant of the Archaeological Institute of the German Reich for Early Christian Studies, making him a one-year stay was made possible in the eastern Mediterranean. He examined, inter alia, in Russia and on Mount Athos by Byzantine manuscripts. On 8 February 1935 he accepted an invitation to a year in Princeton, from 1935 to 1972 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The end of 1935 he emigrated for political reasons then to America and worked since 1945 at Princeton University, where he was from 1950 to 1972 then a professor of art history. In 1962 he was a visiting professor at the University of Bonn. From 1956 to 1965 he undertook expeditions to Sinai where she investigated the artistic treasures of St. Catherine's Monastery. In 1973, he worked for the exhibition Age of Spirituality as Consulting Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Weitzmann was married since 1932 with art historian Josepha Fiedler.

Writings (selection )

  • The Armenian book painting of the 10th and beginning of the 11th century. ( = Istanbul research 4). Reindl, Bamberg, 1933.
  • Early icons, Sinai, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Vienna-Munich 1967.
  • Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, Munich 1977.
  • The Icon. Holy Images - Sixth to Fourteenth Century, New York-London 1978.
  • Adolph Goldschmidt and the Berlin art history, Berlin 1985.
  • Sailing with Byzantium from Europe to America. The Memoirs of an Art Historian. Editio Maris, Munich 1994.
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