Art historian : Kurt Weitzmann : oral history transcript / interviewed by Taina Rikala de Noriega and 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 : Kurt Weitzmann : oral history transcript / interviewed by Taina Rikala de Noriega and 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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Weitzmann discusses his education in Germany, studies in Munster, Wurzburg, Berlin, Vienna; research in Octateuch manuscripts; immigration, and career at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 1935-1972 in art and archaeology; discussion of scholars Albert N. Friend, Adolph Goldschmidt, wife Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler, Charles Rufus Morey, Herbert L. Kessler, Erwin Panofsky, others--faculty, scholars, emigres; Mount Sinai, monastery, research and methodological approach to manuscript illustration; extensive discussion of contacts with universities, museums, libraries in the US; differences between German and American students, teaching methods, scholarship; Byzantine and Western art; Dumbarton Oaks.

Transcript: 1 v. (xii, 227 leaves) : port. ; 28 cm.

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Weitzmann left his native Germany in 1935 for Princeton where he spent the remainder of his life, at the Institute for Advanced Study as a permanent member (1935-1972) and as a professor in Princeton University's Dept. of Art and Archaeology (1945-1972). Weitzmann was also a visiting professor at Yale University and the University of Bonn, and he was associated with the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. His areas of scholarship included the history of Byzantin...

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