Rudolf Wittkower

Rudolf Wittkower was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the United States. Despite having a British father who stayed in Germany after his studies, he was born and raised in Berlin.

Early life

Wittkower was born in Berlin to Henry Wittkower (1865–1942) and Gertrude Ansbach (Wittkower) (1876–1965). His siblings were Kate Wittkower (1900-1968), Werner Joseph Wittkower (1903-1997), and Elly Friedmann (1912-1988). ==Career==

Career

Rudolf Wittkower moved to London in 1933 with his wife Margot (née Holzmann) because they were both Jewish and were fleeing Nazi Germany. Wittkower was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959 and the American Philosophical Society in 1971. He was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award posthumously in 1975 for his book Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy. Wittkower died on 11 October 1971. ==Selected publications==

Selected publications

• Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949) • Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque (1955) • The Arts in Western Europe: Italy in New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 1 (1957), pp. 127–53 • Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750 (Pelican History of Art, 1958, and revised editions) • Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists (1963, co-authored with Margot Wittkower) • The Divine Michelangelo (1964, co-authored with Margot Wittkower) • Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy (1974) • Sculpture: Processes and Principles (1977, co-authored with Margot Wittkower) == Bibliography ==

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