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 graduated from Harvard University with a Masters Degree in Architecture. He then taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan , where he received his doctorate in 1915. In 1919 he was appointed director of arts and architecture at the University of Virginia . In 1923 he built the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . In 1925 he was appointed director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art , a position he held until January 1955. Since 1943 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .
Kimball was a senior monument conservationist and an advocate of the classicist tradition of the United States. He played a leading role in the restoration of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello country house and Stratford Hall Plantation in Virginia . Kimball's own home, Shack Mountain, is near Monticello. Kimball campaigned successfully for John Russell Pope's classicist design in the dispute over the Jefferson Memorial .
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, Junior, 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
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Fiske Kimball. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Fiske Kimball: Shack Mountain, lib.virginia.edu
- ↑ Marie Kimball . In: The Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia . Archived from the original on June 8, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
Web links
- Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic, Fiske Kimball, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1922
- Kimball and the building history of the Jefferson Memorial
- Short biography, the Kimballs and Monticello
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kimball, Fiske |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kimball, Fiske Sidney (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect, architectural historian and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newton (Massachusetts) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1955 |
| Place of death | Munich |