Walter S. Gibson

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Walter S. Gibson , sometimes Walter Samuel Gibson , (born March 31, 1932 in Columbus , Ohio ; † November 18, 2018 in Saratoga Springs , New York ) was an American art historian and university professor .

Life

Gibson's father was an engineer and his mother was a secretary. After high school he was drafted into the American Army during the Korean War , where he served in the Finance Corps from 1952 to 1954 . After his release, he studied at Ohio State University in Cleveland (Ohio) , where he graduated cum laude with the title BFA in 1957 . He received his MA at Harvard University in 1960. In the same year he was able to travel to Europe for a year with a Fulbright Award and prepare his dissertation.

In 1966 Gibson went to Case Western Reserve University as an assistant , where he completed his doctoral thesis in 1969 and submitted it to Harvard in 1969. Doctoral supervisor was Seymour Slive , the subject of the dissertation was the paintings by Cornelis Engelbrechtsen . In 1971 he was appointed associate professor and headed the art history department at Case until 1979 .

Gibson had been married since 1972.

honors and awards

Publications

  • The Paintings of Cornelis Engebrechtsz. PhD thesis, Harvard 1969.
    • Revised and printed in the series: Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts : Garland Publishers, New York 1977.
  • Hieronymus Bosch . Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1973.
    • German: Hieronymus Bosch . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-550-05898-5 .
  • Bruegel . Oxford University Press, New York 1977.
  • Hieronymus Bosch: An Annotated Bibliography . GK Hall, Boston 1983
  • Mirror of the Earth: The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1989.
  • Breugel and Netherlandish Landscape Painting from the National Gallery Prague . National Museum of Western Art , Tokyo, Japan 1990.
  • Pleasant Places: The Rustic Landscape from Bruegel to Ruisdael . University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA 2000.
  • Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter . University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA 2006.

literature

  • Laurinda S. Dixon (Ed.): In detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson , Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at prabook.com , accessed on November 25, 2018
  2. ^ Walter S. Gibson. In: The Berkshire Eagle. Legacy.com, November 23, 2018, accessed November 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gibson, Walter S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibson Walter Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus (Ohio) , Ohio, USA
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2018
Place of death Saratoga Springs (New York)