Kurt Weitzmann

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

Life

Kurt Weitzmann, son of the city school councilor Wilhelm Weitzmann and the piano teacher Antonie Keiper, attended the humanistic grammar school in Gelsenkirchen from 1914 , and in 1923 he completed his school education with the school leaving examination. In the summer of 1923, he first enrolled in law at the University of Münster . In the following semester he changed the subject and studied from then on 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 from the University of Berlin (winter semester 1924/25, summer semester 1926 to winter semester 1928/29). There he was one of Adolph Goldschmidt's students , with whom he received his doctorate in 1930 with the thesis “The ivory boxes from the Middle Byzantine period”. The dissertation was the first of two volumes of the corpus work on ivory under the title: “The Byzantine ivory sculptures of the X.-XIII. Century, Vol. 1: Boxes “published in 1930. In 1934 Weitzmann and Goldschmidt published the second volume of the Corpuswek: “The Byzantine ivory sculptures of the X.-XIII. Century, Vol. 2: Reliefs “.

From 1930 to 1934 Weitzmann was employed by the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire and editor of the institute's yearbook . In 1930/31 he received a travel grant from the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire for early Christian studies, which enabled him to spend a year in the eastern Mediterranean. So he examined u. a. in Russia and on Mount Athos according to Byzantine manuscripts. On February 8, 1935, he accepted an invitation to spend a year in Princeton, and from 1935 to 1972 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. At the end of 1935 he emigrated to America and from 1945 worked at Princeton University , where he was professor of art history from 1950 to 1972. In 1962 he was visiting professor at the University of Bonn. From 1956 to 1965 he went on expeditions to Sinai , where he examined the art treasures of St. Catherine's Monastery . In 1973 he worked as a consulting curator for the Age of Spirituality exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York .

Weitzmann had been married to the art historian Josepha Fiedler since 1932 .

Honors

In 1965 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1964 he was admitted to the American Philosophical Society and in 1978 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1965 he was a corresponding member of the British Academy and since 1970 of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

See the Kurt Weitzmann bibliography

  • Armenian illumination from the 10th and early 11th centuries. (= Istanbul research 4). Reindl, Bamberg 1933.
  • Early icons: Sinai, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Vienna-Munich 1967.
  • Illustrations in roll and codex. 2nd Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1970.
  • Illustrated Manuscripts at St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai. Collegeville, Minn. 1973.
  • The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Icons, Vol. 1: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century. Princeton 1976.
  • Late antique and early Christian book illumination. Munich 1977.
  • The Icon. Holy Images - Sixth to Fourteenth Century. New York-London 1978.
  • Adolph Goldschmidt and Berlin Art History. Berlin 1985.
  • Sailing with Byzantium from Europe to America. The Memoirs of an Art Historian. Editio Maris, Munich 1994.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 255.
  2. ↑ Member History: Kurt Weitzmann. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weitzmann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinalmerode
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1993
Place of death Princeton