Richard Ettinghausen

Richard Ettinghausen (born February 5, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 2, 1979 in Princeton, New Jersey ) was a German-American art historian specializing in Islamic art .

Ettinghausen received his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt in 1931 and then worked at the Islamic Department of the Berlin museums . He emigrated as a Jew in 1934 via Great Britain to the USA , where he became a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1938–1944). From 1944 to 1966 he was a curator at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington . From 1966 he was Professor of Islamic Art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University , and from 1969 head of the Islamic Department of the Metropolitan Museum . Since 1970 he has been a corresponding member of the British Academy and since 1973 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 1976 to the American Philosophical Society , in 1975 he became a member of the Pour le Mérite order .

Fonts (selection)

• as editor: From the world of Islamic art. Festschrift for Ernst Kühnel on his 75th birthday on October 26, 1957. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1959.
• Arabic painting (= The Art Treasures of Asia. 4, ZDB -ID 503322-6 ). Skira, Geneva 1962.
• with Ekrem Akurgal and Cyril Mango : Turkey and its art treasures. The Anatolia of the Early Kingdoms. Byzantium. The Islamic period. Skira, Geneva 1966.

Web links

• Dictionary of Art Historians
• Encyclopædia Iranica
• Literature by and about Richard Ettinghausen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Richard Ettinghausen in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 25, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Member History: Richard Ettinghausen. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 1, 2018 .