Disguised symbolism erwin panofsky biography

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Erwin Panofsky (30 March 1892 - 14 March 1968) was a German Jewish art historian who emigrated to America and remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography.

Many of his works remain in print, including Early Netherlandish Painting (1953) and Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955).

Biography

Erwin Panofsky was born in Hanover, Germany. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Freiburg, receiving his Ph.D.

Disguised symbolism erwin panofsky biography

in 1914 from the University of Freiburg. His academic career in art history took him to the universities of Berlin, Munich, and finally Hamburg, where he taught from 1920 to 1933. It is during this period when his first major writings on art history begin to appear.

Panofsky first came the United States in 1931 to teach at New York University. Though initially allowed to spend alternate terms in Hamburg and New York, after the Nazi