Art historian : Otto von Simson : oral history transcript / interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.

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Art historian : Otto von Simson : oral history transcript / interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215385788

Von Simson discusses his childhood and family background, education Freiburg and Munich, and life in Nazi Germany; departure from Germany for the United States, teaching 1945-1957 at University of Chicago, and 1964-1978 at Kunsthistorisches Institut, Free University of Berlin; differences between students in the United States and Germany, and German deference to authority; UNESCO delegate, 1959-1964, UNESCO executive board, 1960-1964, and president German national committee, 1975-1986; writings on the Byzantine and the Gothic; Erwin Panofsky.

Transcript: 1 v. (ix, 118 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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