Leopold Ettlinger

Leopold Ettlinger ( born April 20, 1913 in Königsberg, East Prussia, † July 4, 1989 in Berkeley, California ) was a British art historian specializing in the Italian Renaissance. He was at the Warburg Institute and Professor at University College London and the University of California, Berkeley.

His father was a university librarian in Königsberg. Leopold went into the hall Gymnasium ( High School 1932) and studied in Halle and Marburg archeology, philosophy and art history, among others, Paul Frankl. In 1937 he received his doctorate in hall with Herbert Koch Gottfried Semper and antiquity. He also cataloged archaeological objects from Crete and Mycenae for cooking. Since he had Jewish ancestry, he was forced to leave Germany in 1938. He worked in London at the Warburg Institute, 1940 was short on the Isle of Man interned as other refugees from Germany and was then again at the Warburg Institute and school teacher in Birmingham. 1948 made ​​him Fritz Saxl curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute. He was a lecturer at the University of Reading and at the Warburg Institute (which he held until 1964, ), was in 1956 at the invitation of Erwin Panofsky at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and was founded in 1959 as the successor to Ernst Gombrich, Professor of Art History at University College London ( Slade School ). 1966 to 1970 he was standing in front of the faculty. In 1970 he moved to Berkeley, where he was from 1970 to 1980 headed the Department of Art History.

1963/64, he was a visiting professor at Yale University.

He was known for his investigation of the patronage of painters by Pope Sixtus IV and the early phase of the Sistine Chapel from 1965. 1976 he released his third wife Helen Lewis Shahrock a monograph on Botticelli. He also published the catalog raisonné by Antonio Pollaiuolo and Piero del Pollaiuolo.

Easter 1979 he converted to the Catholic faith.

Writings

  • Gottfried Semper and the Ancient World; Contributions to the art view of German classicism. Hall, 1937 (dissertation)
  • With R. G. Holloway: Compliments of the Season. London: Penguin Books, 1947
  • Art History Today. [ inaugural address for the University College ] London: HK Lewis, 1961
  • On Science, Industry and Art: Some Theories of Gottfried Semper, Architectural Review, Volume 86, 1964, p 57-60
  • The Sistine Chapel Before Michelangelo: Religious Imagery and Papal Primacy.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965
  • Helen S. Ettlinger: Botticelli. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976
  • Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo: Complete Edition with a Critical Catalogue. Oxford: Phaidon, 1978
  • Vienna and the development of art-historical method. Acts of the XXV. International Congress of Art History, Volume 1, Vienna: Böhlau, 1984 ( he led the discussion at the congress ).
  • The Arts in Western Europe: Northern Europe, in: The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 1, 1953 ( Renaissance Band)
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