Paul Frankl

Paul Frankl ( born January 2, 1878 in Prague, † April 22, 1962 in Princeton ) was a German art historian.

Frankl first studied architecture, from 1907 he studied in Munich art history. In 1910 he received his doctorate. In 1921 he became a professor in Halle ( Saale). In 1933, the dismissal and the publication ban because of his Jewish ancestry was. At the end of the 1930s, he traveled to the United States, where he worked since 1940 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is the brother of the Austrian women's rights activist Olly black.

Works

• The Renaissance architecture in Italy, 1912
• The development phases of the newer architecture, 1914
• Opinions about the nature and origin of the Gothic, 1923
• The system of the art science in 1938
• The secret of the medieval mason; The art bulletin, 1945
• The Gothic. Literary sources and interpretations through eight centuries / Paul Frankl. [ Engl transl. Priscilla Silz ]. Übers from d dt Ms. 3rd edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1965.