Margot Wittkower

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Margot Wittkower (born as Margot Holzmann August 28, 1902 in Berlin ; died July 3, 1995 in Manhattan ) was a German-American art historian.

Life

Margot Holzmann did an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker and had lessons at the Berlin School of Applied Arts . As a teenager she met Rudolf Wittkower , a Berliner and student of art history , who had a British-German father. She worked briefly for a landscape architect and married in 1923, they had the son Mario Max Witt (1925-1994). In 1932 she had a teaching assignment as a factory teacher at the Odenwald School in Oberhambach , while her husband worked as an assistant at the University of Cologne. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, both were released and moved to London. Margot Wittkower worked as an interior designer and furniture designer and developed a style based on Palladio . In 1956 they moved to the USA. Together with her husband, she edited several books on Italian art history. After the death of Rudolf Wittkower, she edited the first volume of the work edition of his writings.

Fonts

  • with Rudolf Wittkower: Born under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963
    • Artist. Outsiders to society . Translation by Georg Kauffmann. Berlin: Kohlhammer, 1965
    • Translations into French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian
  • with Rudolf Wittkower (Ed.): The Divine Michelangelo: the Florentine Academy's Homage on his Death in 1564 . London: Phaidon Publishers, 1964
  • with George R. Collins, Rudolf Wittkower (eds.): Gothic vs. Classic: Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-century Italy . New York: G. Braziller, 1974

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personal data
SURNAME Wittkower, Margot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holzmann, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1995
Place of death Manhattan