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Erwin Panofsky
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Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) was a German and American art historian, university teacher, art critic, and writer. Born in Hanover and deceased in Princeton, he held citizenship in both Germany and the United States. He was of Jewish ethnicity and spoke English and German. Panofsky received his doctorate from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where his advisor was Wilhelm Vöge. He also studied at the University of Freiburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
His academic career included positions at the University of Hamburg, Harvard University, New York University, and Princeton University. He was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy. Panofsky received the Haskins Medal. His doctoral students included Lotte Brand Philip and Ursula Hoff.
Notable works by Panofsky include *Dürers Stellung zur Antike*, *Perspective as symbolic form*, *The Codex Huygens and Leonardo da Vinci's art theory*, *Aufsätze zu Grundfragen der Kunstwissenschaft*, and *Style and medium in the motion pictures*.
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- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1968
- Works
- 154
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1892-03-30 ) March 30, 1892, Hannover , German Empire
- Died
- March 14, 1968 (1968-03-14) (aged 75), Princeton, New Jersey , US
- Spouse
- Dorothea Mosse ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1916 ; died 1965 )
- Children
- 2, including Pief
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Erwin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hanover
- Place of death
- Princeton
- Occupation
- art critic
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Employer
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Wilhelm Vöge
- Student of
- Adolph Goldschmidt
- Doctoral student
- Ursula Hoff
- Field of work
- art history
- Image
- Erwin Panofsky at Oberlin College (1950) (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1892-03-30
- date of death
- 1968-03-14
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- Jewish people
- name in native language
- Erwin Panofsky
- pseudonym
- A. F. Synkop
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- art history
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Encyclopedic overview
Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 – March 14, 1968) was a German art historian whose work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, including his hugely influential Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his seminal Early Netherlandish Painting.
Panofsky's ideas were highly influential in intellectual history in general, particularly in his use of historical ideas to interpret artworks and vice versa. Many of his books are still in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955), and his 1943 study The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. His academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Erwin Panofsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.