Walter Vitzthum

Walter Vitzthum (born March 6, 1928 in Nuremberg ; † March 15, 1971 in Paris ) was a German art historian and expert on Italian drawings . He was a professor at the University of Toronto until his untimely death .

Life

Walter Vitzthum studied art history, archeology, Romance studies and English at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Following numerous study visits to London (at the Courtauld Institute of Art ), Paris, Florence, Rome, Vienna and Berlin, he received his doctorate in Munich in 1956 through Bernardino Poccetti as a draftsman. From 1958 he taught at the Art History Department of the University of Toronto - first as an assistant professor , later promoted to full professor - but for the next few years he kept an apartment in Paris and, despite teaching in Canada, stayed in Europe for about half the year on. His academic work and an enormous traveling - according to Detlef Heikamp he should rarely longer have stayed in one place than ten days - are considered unusual, high productivity was reflected among many shorter monographs primarily in only en passant published observations, write-ups and plant lists down which were communicated by the author in footnotes, catalog articles, reviews and short letters or letters to magazines. Vitzthum has only published one lengthy article in a scientific journal.

Fonts (in selection)

A detailed list of Walter Vitzthum's writings can be found in Heikamp 1971, pp. 97–115.

• Lo studiolo di Francesco I a Firenze. Fabbri, Milan 1965 (L'arte racconta, 16).
• La galleria di Palazzo Farnese a Roma. Fabbri, Milan 1965 (L'arte racconta, 42).
• La galleria di Palazzo Medici-Riccardi . Fabbri, Milan 1965 (L'arte racconta, 45).
• Il barocco a Roma. Fabbri, Milan 1971 (I disegni dei maestri, 14).
• Il barocco a Napoli e nell'Italia meridionale. Fabbri, Milan 1971 (I disegni dei maestri, 9).
• Jacques Callot . Incisioni. La Nuova Italia, Florence 1971.
• Drawings in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto 1970.
• Cento disegni napoletani: sec. XVI ‒ XVIII. Olschki, Florence 1967 (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, 26).
• Luca Giordano . Fabbri, Milan 1966 (I maestri del colore, 172).
• Pietro da Cortona a Palazzo Pitti. Fabbri, Milan 1965 (L'arte racconta, 21).
• Charles Le Brun e la sua scuola a Versailles. Fabbri, Milan 1965 (L'arte racconta, 47).

literature

• Detlef Heikamp : In memoriam Walter Vitzthum. In: Paragone , 22, 261, 1971, pp. 93-115.
• Giuliano Briganti: Ricordi su Walter Vitzthum. Officine Grafiche, Florence 1971.
• John A. Gere: Walter Vitzthum. In: The Burlington Magazine 114, 1972, pp. 721-722.