Em(m)anuel Löwy, or Emanuel Loewy (September 1, 1857 in

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– February 11, 1938 in Vienna) was a

classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

and theorist who employed the methodology of universal psychological sources of form in his work. Löwy was influenced by the concept of "das Gedächtnisbild" by Ernst Brücke. Löwy was also a friend of the famous psychoanalyst

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...

. Among his academic specialties was the art of ancient Greek

vase painting Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and por ...

. Löwy served as a professor of

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

at the University of Rome (1891–1915) where he taught, among others,

Giulio Giglioli Giulio Quirino Giglioli (25 March 1886 – 11 November 1957 in Rome, Italy) was an art historian of classical Roman and Etruscan art and was associated with Fascism in Italy. Giglioli was a student of and assistant to both Emanuel Löwy and Rodo ...

. Löwy was also professor of archaeology at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

(1918–1938).

References

* Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. ''Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Sources of Information in the Humanities'', no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, pp. 95–6. * Dvorák, Max. ''Idealism and Naturalism in Gothic Art''. Translated and noted by Randolph J. Klawiter. Preface by Karl Maria Swoboda. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967, pp. 211–12. * Praschniker, C. "Emanuel Löwy." In ''Almanach der Österreichischen Akadamie der Wissenschaft'' 88 (1938); Bazin 318. * ''Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache''. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 120-121.

Bibliography

* ''Untersuchungen zur griechischen Künstlergeschichte''. Vienna: Gerold's icSohn, 1883. * "''Inschriften griechischer Bildhauer''" (1885); * ''Griechische Inschrifttexte'' Vienna: Tempsky: 1888. * ''Lysipp und seine Stellung in der griechischen Plastik'' Hamburg: Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenschafter Vorträge, 1891. * ''Die Naturwiedergabe in der älteren griechischen Kunst'' Rome: Loescher, 1900. * ''Die griechische Plastik''. 2 vols. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1911. * ''Stein und Erz in der statuarischen Kunst''. Innsbruck: Wagner, 1915. * ''Neuattische Kunst''. Leipzig: Seeman, 1922. * ''Die Anfänge des Triumphbogens'' Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1928. * ''Polygnot: Ein Buch von griechischer Malerei''. 2 vols. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1929. * ''Ursprünge der bildenden Kunst''. Vienna: Holder-Pilchler-Tempsky, 1930. * ''Zur Chronologie der frühgriechischen Kunst: Die Artemistempel von Ephesos''. Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1932. * ''"Der Beginn der rotfigurigen Vasenmalerei''" (1938)

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