George Kubler

Life

Kubler was the son of the art historian Frederick William Kubler and his wife Ellen, née Orloff - Beckmann. In his early youth he lived primarily in Europe. His father died when Kubler was eight years old. After his mother's death he lived in a boarding school in the United States. There he studied at Yale University, where he 1934 BA, 1936 MA and supervised by Henri Focillon, 1940 Ph.D. acquired for art history.

From 1938, ie before the promotion, he works at Yale University, first as a lecturer in art history, from 1964 until his retirement in 1983 as professor. As a professor, he was from 1964 to 1975, the first Robert Lehman Professor, then Sterling Professor of Art History. 1985/1986 he was Kress Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. In addition to his work on European art itself Kubler sat apart especially with architecture and art of Native Mesoamerica and the Andean countries. He was considered one of the leading experts on pre-Columbian and early postkolumbische art.

In addition to three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Grant - in-Aid Scholarship for research in Mexico of the American Council of Learned Societies Kubler received the highest honor the Mexican government for foreigners, the Order of the Aztec Eagle ( Aguila Azteca ), 1991, the oldest and most important Award from Yale University, the William Clyde DeVane medal, and numerous other awards and honorary titles. and was a member of the Mexican Academia de Artes.

He was married to Elizabeth Kubler Bushnell, with whom he had three daughters and a son.

Bibliography

• " The Religious Architecture of New Mexico ," 1940
• "The Architecture of the 16th Century in Mexico"
• "The Art and Architecture of Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions "
• "Art and Architecture in Ancient America"
• The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (New Haven, Yale University Press 1962).
• " The Portuguese Plain Architecture 1528-1706 "