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Otto Brendel was born on 10 October, 1901 in Germany, is a German art historian and classical archaeologist. Discover Otto Brendel'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 71 years old?

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Age 71 years old
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Born 10 October, 1901
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Date of death October 8, 1973 in New York City
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Nationality Germany

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1901

Otto Johannes Brendel (October 10, 1901 in Erlangen, Germany – October 8, 1973 in New York City) was a German art historian and scholar of Etruscan art and archaeology.

1902

Brendel married Maria Weigert Brendel (1902-1994) in 1929.

Brendel's daughter Cornelia Brendel Foss was married to American composer Lukas Foss.

1928

In 1928, he received his Ph.D. from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg under Ludwig Curtius on the topic of Roman iconography of the Augustan period.

While at Heidelberg, Brendel studied with many notable scholars, including Franz Boll, E. Wayne Craven, Alfred von Domaszewski, Friedrich Karl von Duhn, Richard Carl Meister, Eugen Täubler, the literary theorist Ernst Robert Curtius, Friedrich Gundolf, Karl Jaspers, and the classical art historians Karl Lehmann and Friedrich Zimmer.

1938

He emigrated to the United States in 1938.

In the United States, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis from 1938 to 1941 and Indiana University from 1941 to 1956.

1949

From 1949 to 1951, Brendel was at the American Academy in Rome, first under a Prix de Rome and then with a Fulbright Fellowship.

1956

In 1956, he became Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, and became emeritus in 1963, continuing to teach until his retirement in June 1973.

He died that September.

At the time of his death he had written the manuscript for the Pelican History of Art volume on Etruscan Art.

1978

It was completed posthumously by Emeline Hill Richardson, and published in 1978.

His work Prolegomena to the Study of Roman Art represents a notable scholarly approach to the historiography of Roman art.

Otto's wife Maria arranged to have many of his unfinished works published after his death.

One of Brendel's students was Larissa Bonfante.