Walter Ferdinand Friedlaender (March 10, 1873 – September 8, 1966) was a German art historian (who should not be confused with

Max Jakob Friedländer Max Jakob Friedländer (5 July 1867 in Berlin – 11 October 1958 in Amsterdam) was a German museum curator and art historian. He was a specialist in Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, who volunteered at the Kupferstichkab ...

). Walter Friedlaender was the son of Sigismund Friedlaender and Anna Joachimsthal. Born in Glogau, he was taught art history by

Heinrich Wölfflin Heinrich Wölfflin (; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in ar ...

and others. Among his first students was

Erwin Panofsky Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 in Hannover – March 14, 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work represents a high ...

. He taught at the

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(1914–1933), and the

Institute of Fine Arts The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) of New York University is dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology and the conservation and technology of works of art. It offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philos ...

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(1935-1966). According to architecture and art historian Rocky Ruggiero, in a seminal observation about Mannerism by Friedlaender in his work, ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting'', he presented the most sophisticated explanation of the transition from Renaissance art into the modern subjective "-isms" that followed the Baroque synthesis of Renaissance and High Renaissance styles.Friedlaender, Walter. 1965. ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting''. New York: Schocken. LOC 578295 (First edition, New York: Columbia University Press, 1958) The concept Friedlaender presented was that artists moved from the objective and scientific work of Leonardo Da Vinci to the subjective presentations that have followed the break with Classical styles. Friedlaender died in New York.

Works

* ''David to Delacroix'', 1952 * ''Caravaggio Studies'', 1955 * ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting'', 1957 * ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting'', 1965 * ''Poussin''. The Library of Great Painters. 1964. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. New York, N.Y. 204 pp.

References

External links

''Dictionary of Art Historians'': "Walter Friedlaender"
(English)
Guide to the Papers of Walter Friedlaender (1873–1966)
at the

Leo Baeck Institute, New York The Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI) is a research institute in New York City dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, founded in 1955. It is one of three independent research centers founded by a group of German-speaking J ...

1873 births 1966 deaths German art historians New York University faculty German expatriates in the United States People from Głogów People from the Province of Silesia German male non-fiction writers Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States {{germany-art-historian-stub