Erwin Panofsky was a well-known essayist and historian who was born on 30th March, 1892 in Hanover. He was the son of Arnold Panofsky and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky. He studied at Berlin, Munich and Freiburg/Breslau universities. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1914. He got married to Dora Mosse in 1916.
Erwin Panofsky worked at the Warburg Library before moving to London. He taught at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg, from 1920 to 1933. He published one of his major works 'Idea': Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der alteren Kunstheorie in 1924. In his various lectures, Panofsky developed an iconological approach to art history.
He went to United States in 1931. He worked as a lecturer at the York and Princeton universities. In 1935, he joined as the humanistic faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He published 'Studies in Iconology' in 1939 and 'The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer' in 1943. He was a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He married Gerda Soergel after Dora Mosse's death in 1965.
Historian Erwin Panofsky was awarded the Haskins Medal of the Mediaeval Academy of America in 1962. His later books were mostly written in English. This notable figure died on 14th March, 1968.
Given below are some of the notable works of Erwin Panofsky:
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- 1915- Durers Kunsttheorie
- 1921/22- Durers Stellung zur Antike
- 1923- Durers 'Melencholia I'
- 1924- Deutsche Plastik des elften bis dreizehnten Jahrhunderts
- 1925- Uber das Verhältnis der Kunstgeschichte zur Kunsttheorie
- 1926- A Late-Antique Religious Symbol in Works by Holbein and Titian
- 1927- Uber die Reihenfolge der vier Meister von Reims, Perspektive als Symbolische Form
- 1930-'Das erste Blatt aus dem 'Libro' Giorgio Vasaris'
- 1940- Codex Huygens and Leonardo da Vinci's Art Theory
- 1946- Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures
- 1947- Postlogium Sugerianum, Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures
- 1951- Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
- 1953- Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character
- 1955- Meaning in the Visual Arts, Pandora's Box, the Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
- 1957- Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
- 1960- Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art
- 1961- The Iconography of Correggio's Camera di San Paolo
- 1964- Tomb Sculpture, Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art, Saturn and Melancholy
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