Franz von Reber (10 November 1834 in
Cham,
Bavaria
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– 4 September 1919 in
Pöcking
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) was a German
art historian
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Traditionally, the ...
.
[Franz Xaver von Reber]
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After studying in
Munich
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and
Berlin
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, he went to
Rome
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, and in 1858 established himself as lecturer at the
University of Munich
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, was appointed professor at the
Polytechnicum of Munich in 1863 and director of the Royal Gallery in 1875.
Writings
* ''Die Ruinen Roms und der Campagna'' (2d ed. 1879).
* ''Geschichte der Baukunst im Altertums'' (History of ancient architecture, 1864–67).
* ''Kunstgeschichte des Altertums'', 1871
"''History of Ancient Art''" Eng. trans. and supplement by Clarke, New York, 1882).
* ''Geschichte der neueren deutschen Kunst'' (History of recent German art, 2d ed. 1884)
* ''Kunstgeschichte des Mittelalters'', 1886
"''History of mediaeval art''" Eng. trans. 1887).
* ''Geschichte der Malerei vom Anfang des 14. bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts'' (History of painting from the beginning of the 14th until the end of the 18th century, 1894).
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* ''Die phrygischen Felsendenkmäler'' (Phrygian cliff memorials, 1897).
* ]Vitruvius
Vitruvius ( ; ; –70 BC – after ) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled . As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissan ...
, ''Des Vitruvius zehn Bücher über Architektur'', as translator (1865).
* Catalogue of the paintings in the Old Pinakothek Munich with a historical introduction by Franz von Reber; translated by Joseph Thacher Clarke (1885).
* Max Rooses, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'' (History of the Antwerp School of Painting) translated as: ''Geschichte der Malerschule Antwerpens von Q. Massijs bis zu den letzten Ausläufern der Schule P.P. Rubens'' (2nd edition, 1889).HathiTrust Digital Library
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1834 births
1919 deaths
German art historians
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
People from Cham, Germany
German male non-fiction writers