Millard Meiss

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Millard Lazare Meiss (born March 25, 1904 in Cincinnati , Ohio, † June 12, 1975 in Princeton ) was an American leading art historian of the style epochs of the late Middle Ages and the early Italian Renaissance.

Life

Millard Meiss's parents were Leon Meiss and his wife Clara, geb. Loewenstein. He studied architecture at Princeton University ; he completed his studies in 1926 with a BA (Bachelor of Arts). After graduating, he worked as a construction manager in New York for two years. In 1928 he began studying art history at Harvard University. In the same year he married Margaret Louchheim, who later worked as a psychotherapist. He then moved to New York University, where he deepened his studies in medieval and Renaissance painting. His thesis, which he wrote under Walter Friedlaender , was published as his first essay in Art Bulletin 1931. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Francesco Traini with Richard Offner in 1933. He then worked as a professor at New York University; In 1934 he accepted a position at Columbia University. From 1940 to 1942 he was editor of the Art Bulletin, and later he became a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1951 he published his first book, "Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death". In 1953 he was appointed professor of art history at Harvard. In 1954 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1963 to the American Philosophical Society . In 1958 he left Harvard to teach at Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1966, when the Arno flooded in Florence , he organized a commission of experts to save the endangered and damaged art treasures. In 1973 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . In 1974 he was diagnosed with an incurable disease. He died in Princeton in 1975.

Works

  • Ugolino Lorenzetti (Master Thesis), 1931, Art Bulletin New York
  • The Problem of Francesco Traini (dissertation), 1933, Art Bulletin New York
  • Italian style in Catalonia and a fourtheenth century catalan workshop , 1941.
  • Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death , 1951, Princeton University Press

literature

  • Edith W. Kirsch: Millard Meiss. in: Joan M. Marter: The Grove encyclopedia of American art. Vol. 3 Kabakov - Ozette. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, p. 278.

Individual evidence

  1. Member History: Millard Meiss. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 7, 2020 .