Ernst Pfuhl (17 November 1876,

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– 7 August 1940,

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) was a German-Swiss classical archaeologist and art historian. He was the son of sculptor

Johannes Pfuhl Johannes Pfuhl (20 February 1846 – 5 May 1914) was a German sculptor. Biography He was born in Löwenberg, in the Prussian Province of Silesia. He studied in the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts under Hermann Schievelbein. He became his master's ...

(1846-1914) and a son-in-law to art dealer Athanasios Rhousopoulos (1823-1898).

Biography

He studied under

Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz (name at birth Kekulé, called Kekulé von Stradonitz only after 1889; 6 March 1839 – 23 March 1911) was a German archeologist. He has been called the founder of modern iconology (Langlotz). He served as director ...

and

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (22 December 1848 – 25 September 1931) was a German classical philologist. Wilamowitz, as he is known in scholarly circles, was a renowned authority on Ancient Greece and its literature ...

at the

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, and later on, performed excavatory work at the necropolis at

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as an assistant to

Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen __NOTOC__ Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen (3 August 1864 – 25 October 1947) was a German archeologist and philologist, a specialist in Greek epigraphy. Life Hiller von Gaertringen was the son of the Prussian army officer Rudolf Hiller von G ...

.Dictionary of Art Historians
(biography) In 1905 he received his habilitation at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

, and in 1911, became a "full professor" at the

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. At Basel he founded the ''Archäologische Seminar'' in 1912. He remained at Basel until his death in 1940, his successor being

Karl Schefold Karl Schefold (; 26 January 1905 – 16 April 1999) was a classical archaeologist based in Basel, Switzerland. Born and educated in Germany, he was forced in 1935 to emigrate to Switzerland, which he adopted as his home country. His speciality ...

. In 1941 his personal art collection was auctioned in Lucerne.

Works

In 1923 he published his main work, titled ''Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen''; and during the following year, a shortened version was issued ("''Meisterwerke griechischer Zeichnung und Malerei''"), which was later translated into English by

John Beazley Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...

and published as "Masterpieces of Greek Drawing and Painting" (1926). In 1946 Hans Möbius took charge of compiling Pfuhl's corpus of Greek grave reliefs — these eventually being published in 1977 as ''Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs''. Other significant literary works by Pfuhl are: * ''De Atheniensium pompis sacris''. Berlin 1900. * ''Der archaische Friedhof am Stadtberge von Thera. Athen'', 1903 – Archaic cemetery on the city hills of Thera. * ''Die Anfänge der griechischen Bildniskunst. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Individualität''. München 1927 – The beginnings of Greek portraiture. A contribution to the history of individuality. * ''Ostgriechische Reisen. Kleinasien, Kypros und Syrien''. Basel 1941 – Eastern Greek travels:

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and Syria.de.Wikisource
bibliography Pfuhl also contributed numerous articles to the second edition of the '' Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft''.

References

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