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Rudolf Wittkower was born on 22 June, 1901 in Berlin, Germany, is a British art historian (1901–1971). Discover Rudolf Wittkower's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Art historian
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 June 1901
Birthday 22 June
Birthplace Berlin, Germany
Date of death 11 October, 1971
Died Place New York City, NY, U.S.
Nationality Germany

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1865

Wittkower was born in Berlin to Henry Wittkower (1865–1942) and Gertrude Ansbach (Wittkower) (1876–1965).

1901

Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) 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.

1933

Rudolf Wittkower moved to London in 1933 with his wife Margot Holzmann because they were both Jewish and were fleeing Nazi Germany.

1934

He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London from 1934 to 1956, was appointed Durning Lawrence professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London in 1949 and then moved to the United States to work at Columbia University from 1956 to 1969 where he was chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology.

Among Wittkower's books were monographs on Bernini and Michelangelo, volumes in standard textbook series, and more individual subjects such as his Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, "his most significant book".

This introduced an in depth analysis of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio and his relation to sixteenth century music theory.

Part Four specifically deals with how and why Palladio adapted harmonic musical ratios and incorporated them into the physical proportions of his buildings.

Although this theory of Palladian proportions was universally accepted after the book's release, recent works in art history have made it the subject of much controversy.

Wittkower had encountered this notion that musical harmony may act in a manner analogous to visual harmony in Pythagoras, where it was also noted by Alberti.

1959

Wittkower was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959 and the American Philosophical Society in 1971.

1971

Wittkower died on 11 October 1971.

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  • "Making Art History at Columbia: Meyer Schapiro and Rudolf Wittkower". Columbia Magazine.

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  • 1975

    He was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award posthumously in 1975 for his book Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy.

    1980

    "Four Centuries of Literature on Palladio", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 39, No. 3 (October 1980), 224–241.