Walter Ferdinand Friedlaender (March 10, 1873 – September 8, 1966) was a German

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(who should not be confused with Max Jakob Friedländer). 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 ...

and others. Among his first students was

Erwin Panofsky Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 – March 14, 1968) was a German-Jewish art historian whose work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, including his hugely influential ''Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art ...

. He taught at the Freiburg University (1914–1933), and the

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(1935-1966). According to architecture and art historian Rocky Ruggiero, in a seminal observation about

Mannerism Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...

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

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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

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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