Obituaries. (Artworld).(Art Historian Ernst Kitzinger, Financier C. Douglas Dillon and Writer Maurice Blanchot)(Obituary)

From: Art in America | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Ernst Kitzinger, 90, Byzantine art expert, died Jan. 22 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The German-born scholar fled that country with the rise of Nazism, first to Great Britain, where he worked for a while at the British Museum and, in 1940, published Early Medieval Art at the British Museum. He then immigrated to the U.S. in 1941 and became a junior fellow at the Center for Byzantine Studies at Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. In 1946, he became professor of Byzantine art and archeology there and served as director of Byzantine studies from 1955 ...

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