Kurt Weitzmann (March 7, 1904,
Kleinalmerode (
Witzenhausen
Witzenhausen is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.
It was granted town rights in 1225, and until 1974, it was a district seat.
The University of Kassel maintains a satellite campus in Witzenhausen at which i ...
, near
Kassel) – June 7, 1993,
Princeton, New Jersey
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) was an American art historian who studied Byzantine and medieval art.
He attended the universities of
Münster
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,
Würzburg
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and
Vienna
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before moving to
Princeton
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in 1935, due to Nazi persecution. He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...
in
Egypt
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. He was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1964 and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1978.
Works
* Greek mythology in Byzantine art, 1951
* Geistige Grundlagen und Wesen der makedonischen Renaissance, 1963
* Illustration roll and codex, 1947,
21970
* ''"Studies in manuscript illumination"'' series
* ''The
Joshua Roll
The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance, believed to have been created by artists of the imperial workshops in Constantinople, and is now held in the V ...
'', 1948
* ''The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria di
Castelseprio, 1952
* Ancient book illumination, 1959
* Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, 1970
* The
Monastery of St. Catherine
Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...
at Mount Sinai, The Icons, I. 1976
* Studies in classical and Byzantine manuscript illumination, 1971
* Byzantine book illumination and ivories, 1980
* Byzantine liturgical Psalters and Gospels, 1980
* (with H. L. Kessler) The
Frescoes of the
Dura Synagogue and Christian Art, 1990
See also
*
Paris Psalter
The Paris Psalter (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. gr. 139) is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript, 38 x 26.5 cm in size, containing 449 folios and 14 full-page miniatures. The Paris Psalter is considered a key monument of the so-called Mace ...
*
Castelseprio
*
Adolph Goldschmidt
References
External links
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* http://arthistorians.info/weitzmannk
Bibliography Kurt WeitzmannEstate Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler
1904 births
1993 deaths
German art historians
American art historians
German emigrants to the United States
People from Witzenhausen
20th-century American historians
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
German male non-fiction writers
20th-century American male writers
Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
American male non-fiction writers
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Historians of Byzantine art
Members of the American Philosophical Society