| Code | DS/UK/1273 |
| Dates | 30/03/1892-14/03/1968 |
| Person Name | Panofsky; Erwin (30/03/1892-14/03/1968); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Panofsky |
| Forenames | Erwin |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian; chaired art history department at newly established University of Hamburg (1920-1926); Professor of Art History (Hamburg, 1926-1931). Teaching contract at New York University (1931-1932 and Summer 1933). Professor at New York University, Princeton and Harvard (1947-1948). Chair of Art History at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1956-1963). |
| Relationships | Son of Arnold Panofsky and mother Cäcilie Solling; married (1916) Dorothea Mosse (1885-1965); re-married (1966) 36-year old Gerda Soergel [Sörgel] (b.1929); father of Hans Panofsky (born 1917), Wolfgang Panofsky (born 1919). |
| History | Studied philosophy, philology and art history in Freiburg (1910) and Berlin (1910-1914); doctoral dissertation under Wilhelm Vöge on Dürer's artistic theory (Dürers Kunsttheorie: vornehmlich in ihrem Verhaltnis zur Kunsttheorie der Italiener) (Freiburg, 1914); emigrated in 1934 to the USA. |
| Source | URL: <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/panofskye.htm> [accessed 09/06/2011]
Panofsky, Erwin, Deutschsprachige Aufsätze I, ed.Michels, Karen und Warnke, Martin, Berlin 1998 |
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