Leo Steinberg
Leo Steinberg (born July 9, 1920 in Moscow , † March 13, 2011 in New York ) was a naturalized American art historian and art critic .
Life
Leo Steinberg's father was Isaac Nachman Steinberg . Leo Steinberg, who originally wanted to be a painter, studied at London's Slade School from 1936 to 1940 . After the Second World War he studied art history with Richard Krautheimer and Wolfgang Lotz at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . In 1960 he obtained a PhD with a thesis on the Roman Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Borromini .
Steinberg was a professor of art history at Hunter College of the City University of New York and emeritus professor of art history at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of the University of Pennsylvania . Steinberg did research in the fields of Renaissance , Classical Modernism, and American art after 1945.
His essay The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion was published in 1983 as issue 25 of the leading art magazine October . In this essay he examined a previously ignored feature of Renaissance art, the emphasis on the genitals of the Child Jesus , and the corresponding attention paid to depictions of the Passion of Christ (see Ostentatio genitalium ).
Leo Steinberg turned away from art criticism and devoted himself to Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci . However, he continued to deal with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns . His essay on Pablo Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was groundbreaking .
His A. W. Mellon lecture in 1982 was entitled The Burden of Michelangelo's Painting . In 1995/96 he gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University, The Mute Image and the Meddling Text , The Silent Image and the Disturbing / Interfering Text.
Tom Wolfe called him one of the rulers of the Schickeria (kings of Cultureburg) ; alongside Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg , he was the ruler of the New York art world.
Awards
In 1978 he was in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences added, in 1986 he received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation , also referred to as the Genius Award .
Works
- Other criteria; Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Arts . Oxford University Press, New York, 1972.
- The Philosophical Brothel. In: Art News , Volume 71, Part I (September 1971): pp. 20-29, Part II (October 1972): pp. 38-47.
- Pontormo's Capponi Chapel. Art Bulletin, Vol. 56, (1974) No. 3, pp. 385-399.
- The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion. In. October , No. 25 (Summer) 1983, pp. 1-222. Reprint: Pantheon Books, New York, 1983.
- Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper , Zone Books, New York, 2001.
Web links
- Leo Steinberg in the Dictionary of Art Historians (English)
- Excerpts from Steinberg's writings at artchive (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word (1975)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinberg, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 2011 |
| Place of death | new York |