Leopold David Ettlinger (April 20, 1913 – July 4, 1989) was a

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of the

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and

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Department Chair, from 1970 to 1980. He wrote some of his books together with his third wife Helen Shahrokh Ettlinger. He was born in Germany and came to England in 1938 as a refugee from the Nazi regime. When briefly interned on the

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he got to know other art historians from the Warburg Institute, which he joined in 1948, staying until 1964. From 1964 he was Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at

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(replacing

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). In 1970 he moved to the US and Berkeley. He also taught at the

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in England, and Yale. Helen Ettlinger was born in California and studied at Berkeley. They later divorced.DAH

Publications

* 'The Arts in Western Europe: Northern Europe', in '' New Cambridge Modern History'', vol. 1 The Renaissance 1493–1520, Cambridge University Press, 1957. *''The Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo: Religious Imagery and Papal Primacy'', Clarendon Press, 1965. *''Botticelli'', (with Helen S. Ettlinger), Thames and Hudson (World of Art), 1976. *''Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo: Complete Edition with a Critical Catalogue'', Phaidon, 1978.

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References

*"DAH"
Leopold Ettlinger
Dictionary of Art Historians *"UC"
Leopold David Ettlinger, History of Art: Berkeley
University of California, In Memoriam. Academics of the Warburg Institute University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty 1913 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American businesspeople German art historians English art historians American art historians Historians from California 20th-century American male writers German emigrants to the United Kingdom English emigrants to the United States {{US-art-historian-stub