Boris Vipper ( lv, Boriss Vipers, russian: Борис Робертович Виппер; 3(15) April 1888,

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– 24 January 1967, Moscow) was Latvian art historian, Professor at the

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(1924-1941), Soviet art critic, member of the

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Education

He studied at Moscow Imperial University (1906-1911) and taught there, at the Latvian Academy of Arts and at the Latvian University.

Career

He taught history and art theory at the

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, since 1932 at the

and made a substantial contribution to the research on Latvian art. As an art critic, he specialised in European, particularly in Latvian, Italian, Dutch, Russian and German art. Since 1944, he worked as a deputy director for research of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. His fundamental works are dedicated to the main problems in art history and include questions of realism, struggles between art schools and historical development of styles and genres. His propaedeutic course for art historians, ''Introduction to the Historical Study of Arts,'' was unique for its deep and thorough analysis of technical problems and genres. He covered primitive to

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Bibliography

* Latvijas māksla baroka laikmetā, Rīga, 1937 * Baroque art in Latvia, Rīga, 1939 *Проблема и развитие натюрморта, Казань, 1922 *Тинторетто. М., 1948 *Борьба течений в итальянском искусстве XVI века, М., 1956 *Становление реализма в голландской живописи XVII века, М., 1957 *Очерки голландской живописи эпохи расцвета (1640-1670), М., 1962 *Проблемы реализма в итальянской живописи XVII-XVIII вв., М., 1966 *Статьи об искусстве, М., 1970 *Введение в Историческое изучение искусства. М. 1970

References

External links

Б.Р.Виппер ''Введение в историческое изучение искусства'' на lib.ru
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vipper, Boris Art critics from the Russian Empire Soviet art historians Soviet male writers Latvian art historians 1888 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Latvian historians