Klaus Berger (24 March 1901 - 13 February 2000) was a German

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 ...

and professor at the University of Kansas.Klaus Berger.
Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 12 December 2016. He wrote books on Gericault,

Odilon Redon Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; ; 20 April 18406 July 1916) was a French Symbolism (arts), symbolist painter, printmaker, Drawing, draughtsman and pastellist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, he ...

and Japonisme.

Selected publications

* ''Das Problem der Entwicklung in der modernen Kunstwissenschaft. Erster Teil: Wölfflins Formauffassung und ihr Umkreis''. Dissertation, Ms.; Auszug in: ''Jahrbuch der Philosophischen Fakultät Göttingen''. 1924, S. 1–12. * ''Géricault. Drawings and Watercolors''. Bittner, Recklinghausen 1946. * als Herausgeber: ''French Master Drawings of the Nineteenth Century''. Harper, New York 1950. * ''Géricault und Sein Werk''. Schroll, Wien 1952 (engl. Übersetzung: ''Géricault and His Work''.

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, Lawrence 1955) * ''Odilon Redon. Phantasie und Farben''. DuMont Schauberg, Köln 1964 (engl. Übersetzung: ''Odilon Redon. Fantasy and Colour''). Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1964. * ''Stilstrukturen des 19. Jahrhunderts''. In: ''Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft''. NS 12, 1967, S. 192–203 estschrift Joseph Gantner * ''Japonismus in der westlichen Malerei 1860–1920''. Prestel, München 1980 (engl. Übersetzung: ''Japonisme in Western Painting from Whistler to Matisse''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992) * (Übers.) Moritz Geiger: ''The Significance of Art. A Phenomenological Approach to Aesthetics''. Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and University Press of America, Lanham 1986 (Übersetzung von M. Geiger: ''Die Bedeutung der Kunst. Zugänge zu einer materialen Wertästhetik'')

References

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