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2 unusual facts about Art History


Julius von Schlosser

Julius Alwin Franz Georg Andreas Ritter von Schlosser (23 September 1866, Vienna – 1 December 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian art historian and an important member of the Vienna School of Art History.

Ole Wanscher

Taking a cue from his father, an art historian, Wanscher published several histories of furniture design during his time at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, including The History of the Art of Furniture and Five Thousand Years of Furniture.


Adolf Michaelis

Adolf Michaelis (22 June 1835 – 12 August 1910) was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their modern footing.

Amelia Jones

Amelia Jones (born July 14, 1961) is an American art historian, art critic and curator specializing in feminist art, body/performance art, video art and Dadaism.

Beat Wyss

Beat Wyss (1947 in Basle) is a Swiss art historian, professor ordinarius for art history and media theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany, and member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Boris Marshak

Marshak was a leading authority on the history of Panjakent, the archaeology and art history of Central Asia, and medieval eastern silverware.

Branko Gradišnik

He received a bachelor's degree in art history and sociology from the University of Ljubljana and holds a master's degree in creative writing from Lancaster University.

College of Art, Delhi

This includes training for Master of Fine Art (MFA, a post graduation course of two year in duration) except Art History and Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA, an undergraduate course with 4 years duration) in Applied Art, Art History, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture and Visual Communication with emphasis on studio practicals, prescribed theory subjects and research in selected fields.

Damjan Prelovšek

Damjan Prelovšek (born February 18, 1945) is a Slovenian art historian, an expert on the architect Jože Plečnik.

Eileen Rubery

Eileen Doris Rubery CB QHP FRCR FFPHM FRCPath (née McDonnell, born 16 May 1943) is a British academic who has worked in such diverse fields as medical research (at one point Senior Medical Officer of the Department of Health), business and management studies, and presently, art history and history.

Fayga Ostrower

Ostrower began work as a secretary while studying art at the Fine Arts Association, and in 1946 attended design classes at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation’s Brazilian Society of Fine and Graphic Arts, where she studied metal and wood engraving, and art history, with tutors Axel Leskoschek, Tomás Santa Rosa, Carlos Oswald and Anna Levy.

Jelena Genčić

Parallel to sports, she graduated art history at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and worked for decades as a television director at the state-owned television network TV Belgrade that eventually transformed into Radio Television of Serbia.

John Canaday

John Edwin Canaday (b. February 1, 1907, Fort Scott, Kansas - d. July 19, 1985, New York City, New York) was a leading American art critic, author and art historian.

Karel Kryl

He attained a second, German, graduation in 1973 and went on to study art history and journalism at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, though he never attained a title.

Kathrin Becker

From 1984 to 1991, Kathrin Becker studied art history and Slavic languages at the Ruhr University Bochum, the Moscow State University, and the Leningrad State University.

Meike Hoffmann

Meike Hoffmann (born 1962) is a German art historian and provenance researcher.

Niels Laurits Høyen

He gave lectures to a broader public, and on 26 June 1856 he was named as the first professor in art history at the University of Copenhagen.

Pietro Locatelli

It includes ornithological, theological, church historical, political, geographical, art historical and mathematical works, and literature on music theory dating back to the 16th century.

Salimbeni Prize

The Salimbeni Prize (Il Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Critica d'Arte) is awarded by the Fondazione Salimbeni per le Arti Figurative of San Severino Marche to honour excellence in the writing of art history on an Italian subject.

University of Iowa School of Art and Art History

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History is a school of the University of Iowa located in Iowa City, IA which awards undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art and Art history.


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Aleksandr Kamensky

From 1949 to 1962, he chaired the department of Art History at the Art institute in Vilnius.

Alexey Olenin

In 1780 he was sent to study history and art history in Dresden.

Amnon Barzel

Barzel earned his post-graduate degree at the University La Sorbonne in Paris, France, in Art History.

Anna Novakov

Her writings on artists such as Marina Abramović, Dennis Adams, Shimon Attie, Tony Labat, Inigo Manglane-Ovalle, Michael Rakowitz, and Andrea Zittel has formed the basis for public art studies – an academic branch of art history and visual culture.

Arthur G. Miller

The following year he completed his Master's degree at the École du Louvre in Paris, a leading French Grande école (graduate school) dedicated to anthropological and art history research fields.

Arts of Mankind

The Arts of Mankind (in French L’Univers des formes), an ambitious series of art history survey books founded in 1960 for the French publisher Gallimard by André Malraux, who edited many of the volumes.

Barbara Warren

Born Barbara Mueller in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria to Hans and Ingrid Mueller, she and her identical twin sister, Angelika Drake, left their farmhouse at 14 for high school in Innsbruck and then, at age 17, went on to study art history at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in Florence, Italy.

Baxandall

Michael Baxandall (August 18, 1933 – August 12, 2008), British-born art historian, professor of Art History at the University of California, and curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Beat Wyss

After a visiting professorship at Bonn University and a scholarship at the Getty Center in Santa Monica, Wyss was appointed professor for art history by Ruhr University Bochum in 1990.

Carlo Pedretti

Pedretti is a professor emeritus of art history and Armand Hammer Chair in Leonardo Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the author of more than 40 books and 500 essays and articles in various languages, on the many aspects of his specialty.

Cobbe Portrait

The identification has received support from Shakespeare scholars Stanley Wells, Henry Woudhuysen, Jay L. Halio, Stuart Sillars, and Gregory Doran, Chief Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and art historians Alastair Laing, curator of paintings and sculpture at the National Trust, and Paul Joannides, Professor of Art History at Cambridge.

Daved Hild

In the late seventies, while studying art history at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Hild formed the punk band The Girls with Robin Amos, George Condo and Mark Dagley.

Françoise Cachin

Cachin studied art history under André Chastel at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie of the University of Paris.

Friedhelm Döhl

Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and piano with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen.

Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours

A very elaborate tomb was commissioned for Gaston in Milan from the workshop of Agostino Busti, which despite never being completed and assembled remains a key work in art history, and especially French Renaissance art, with (as planned) classicising relief panels of his campaigns around the base of the sarcophagus, surmounted by a more traditional recumbent effigy.

Glenda Leon

She has also studied Classical Ballet and Philology at the University of Havana, where she got a BA in Art History.

Glibovac

In 1919 archaeologists from the Art History Archive in Belgrade discovered remains of an ancient Roman town on the site of the current village.In a field near the hamlet of Bubanj 375 were found coins dating from the reigns of Septimius Severus (193-211AD) and Volusianus (251-253AD).

Gregory Loselle

He teaches secondary English and Art History in the Grosse Ile, Michigan (US) schools.

Gunnar Brands

Since 1996, hae has been professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the Institute for Oriental Archaeology and Art History at the In 1993/94 and 2000/01 he was a Fellow for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

Jacques Mesnil

In 1906, he settled in France, where he pursued his research on art history and became a friend of Romain Rolland.

Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman

There she was introduced to the German Expressionists, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Klee, and Matisse by her art history professor, Dr. Ernst Scheyer.

Joao Ponces de Carvalho

He went to the University of Lisbon, obtaining a License in History, specialty, Art History.

Jules Langsner

After his stint with ARTnews Langsner went on to teach at the University of Southern California where he taught Art History.

Kavita Singh

Kavita Singh is an associate professor of art history at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Kazimierz Michałowski

Michałowski studied classical archeology and art history at the University of Lwów; he studied at the Universities and Archaeological Institutes of Berlin, Heidelberg, Münster, Paris, Rome, Athens and Cairo.

Kurt Badt

His writings include studies on Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Eugène Delacroix, Nicolas Poussin, Jan Vermeer, John Constable, Paul Cézanne, Raphael, Vincent van Gogh, Paolo Veronese, Ernst Barlach and attacks on the methodology of the "second Vienna school" of art history dominated by Hans Sedlmayr.

Late modern period

Late modernism, a period in art history (post-World War II to present)

Lee Langley

Her most recent novel, A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire (2006), was set in 18th and 19th century Paris, Italy, Russia and Egypt, and recreated the life of Dominique Vivant Denon, one of the most significant figures in French art history.

Linda Nochlin

In the conference and in the book, art historians addressed the innovative work of such figures as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Francesca Woodman, Carrie Mae Weems and Mona Hatoum in the light of the legacies of thirty years of feminist art history, appeared in 2006.

Michael Fried

In the late summer of 1962, Fried returned to the U.S, where he combined studying for a Ph.D in art history at Harvard with writing art criticism, initially for Art International, and curating the exhibition Three American painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum.

Museum Bredius

Bredius only kept pieces which were of academic interest in the art history field, such as the only known landscape example by the seascape painter Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, or a mutilated piece that was originally a biblical scene by Jan Steen of the marriage of Tobias and Sarah, that had been cut down into two genre pieces in the 19th century and sold separately.

Necmi Sönmez

Necmi Sönmez studied art history, Byzantine art history and classical archaeology in Mainz, Paris, Newcastle and Frankfurt am Main.

Nelson De La Nuez

He studied art history and in 1982 began exploring the art of collage by juxtaposing the masters of art such as Vincent van Gogh or Pablo Picasso and juxtaposing the images with popular culture and satirical humor.

Philippe Jullian

Other books include Montmartre (1977) and Les Orientalistes (1977), works of art history; and biographies of Edward VII (1962), Wilde (1967), Gabriele D’Annunzio (1971), Jean Lorrain (1974), Violet Trefusis (1976), and Sarah Bernhardt.

Richard MacNeish

His interest in archaeology started at a young age, sparked by a hastily created report on the Maya for an art history class when he was twelve.

Sarah Beth Goncarova

Goncarova graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2002 from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture and Extended Media, with a minor in Art History.

Teeswater, Ontario

His paper "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction" is now mandatory reading for art history students at New York University.

Tim League

Tim League graduated from Rice University in 1992 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Art/Art History.

Totally Tom

After Eton, Stourton, the second son of former BBC journalist Edward Stourton, studied art history at the University of Bristol while Palmer read history at Oxford University.

University College at Rockland

URock offers a variety of courses — both university level and remedial — including basic college mathematics, communication, English, introductory biology and anatomy and physiology, introductory computer science, art, art history, history, business, American government courses, and many others.

University College Utrecht

Voltaire houses the Humanities department which covers History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Literature, Art History, Museum Studies, and Linguistics.

Vicki Goldberg

She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and earned a Master's Degree in Art History from New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

Walter Koschatzky

Walter Koschatzky (b. 17 August 1921 in Graz, Styria, d. 9 May 2003 in Vienna) was an Austrian art historian, curator and art history author.

Wheeler School

In 1887, Wheeler took a group of young women to Giverny, France for a summer of painting, art history and French.

Wilhelmina Holladay

Holladay, known as "Billie", graduated with a degree in art history from Elmira College in 1944 and also studied art at the University of Paris.

Wolf Tegethoff

Tegethoff studied art history, urban design, economic history and social history at the University of Bonn and Columbia University, New York.