Kurt Weitzmann (March 7, 1904, Kleinalmerode (

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, near Kassel) – June 7, 1993,

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) was an American art historian who studied Byzantine and medieval art. He attended the universities of

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and

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before moving to

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in 1935, due to Nazi persecution. He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at

Saint Catherine's Monastery Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...

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. He was elected to the

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in 1964 and the

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in 1978.

Works

* Greek mythology in Byzantine art, 1951 * Geistige Grundlagen und Wesen der makedonischen Renaissance, 1963 * Illustration roll and codex, 1947, ²1970 * ''"Studies in manuscript illumination"'' series * ''The

Joshua Roll The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance, believed to have been created by artists of the imperial workshops in Constantinople, and is now held in the V ...

'', 1948 * ''The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria di Castelseprio, 1952 * Ancient book illumination, 1959 * Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, 1970 * The

Monastery of St. Catherine Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...

at Mount Sinai, The Icons, I. 1976 * Studies in classical and Byzantine manuscript illumination, 1971 * Byzantine book illumination and ivories, 1980 * Byzantine liturgical Psalters and Gospels, 1980 * (with H. L. Kessler) The Frescoes of the Dura Synagogue and Christian Art, 1990

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External links

* * http://arthistorians.info/weitzmannk
Bibliography Kurt Weitzmann

Estate Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler
1904 births 1993 deaths German art historians American art historians German emigrants to the United States People from Witzenhausen 20th-century American historians Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy German male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America American male non-fiction writers {{US-art-historian-stub Historians of Byzantine art Members of the American Philosophical Society

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