Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg (28 June 1890 in

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– 1 September 1958 in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

) was an Austrian-German

archaeologist 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 ...

and

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

. He was the husband of writer

Marie Luise Kaschnitz Marie Luise Kaschnitz (born Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets. She was born in Ka ...

. He studied 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 ...

, where one of his influences was art historian

Max Dvořák Max Dvořák (4 June 1874 – 8 February 1921) was a Czech-born Austrian art historian. He was a professor of art history at the University of Vienna and a famous member of the Vienna School of Art History, employing a ''Geistesgeschichte'' metho ...

. From 1910 to 1913 he took part in excavations in

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and participated in study trips to Greece, North Africa and Egypt. In 1913 he obtained his doctorate from Vienna with a dissertation-thesis on 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 ...

. After performing military service in

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, he worked for several years in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

. From 1923 he worked in

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, where he conducted research at the

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(DAI) and cataloged

ancient Greek art Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation. The rate of stylistic d ...

at the

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. In 1932 he was appointed professor of

classical archaeology 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 ...

at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

. Later on, he held professorships at the universities of

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

(1937–1940) and

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(1940–1956). In 1953 he was named director of the DAI in Rome, where he resumed publication of the "''Römische Mitteilungen''", a journal that had been in hiatus since 1944.Kaschnitz von Weinberg, Guido, Freiherr
Dictionary of Art Historians As an art historian, he used structure analysis (''Strukturforschung'') rather than the concept of style when determining works of ancient art. From a standpoint of methodology, he was the nearest follower of

Alois Riegl Alois Riegl (14 January 1858, Linz – 17 June 1905, Vienna) was an Austrian art historian, and is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History. He was one of the major figures in the establishment of art history as a self-sufficient ac ...

— with his "structural analysis" being considered a form of Riegl's notion of ''Kunstwollen'' ("will to art"). Kaschnitz-Grab

Selected works

* ''Bemerkungen zur Struktur der ägyptischen Plastik'' (1933) – Remarks on the structure of Egyptian sculpture. * ''Marcus Antonius, Domitian, Christus'' (1938) –

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, Jesus Christ. * ''Die mittelmeerischen grundlagen der antiken kunst'' (1944) – The Mediterranean foundation of ancient art. * ''Die Grundlagen der antiken Kunst'' (2 volumes, 1944) – The basics of ancient art. * ''Ludwig Curtius: das wissenschaftliche Werk'' (1958) –

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, scientific work. * ''Das Schöpferische in der römischen Kunst'' (1961) – Creativity in

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. * ''Römische Kunst'' (3 volumes, 1961; edited and published by Helga Heintze) – Roman art. * ''Die Baukunst im Kaiserreich'' (1963; edited and published by Helga Heintze) – Architecture of the Empire. * ''Ausgewählte Schriften'' (3 volumes, 1965; edited and published by Helga Heintze) – Selected writings. * ''Kleine Schriften zur Struktur'' (1965; edited and published by Helga Heintze) – Smaller works on structure. * ''Mittelmeerische Kunst : eine Darstellung ihrer Strukturen'' (1965; edited and published by Peter H. von Blanckenhagen and Helga Heintze) – Mediterranean art: a presentation of its structures.Most widely held works about Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg
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