| Code | DS/UK/2282 |
| Dates | 1901-1973 |
| Person Name | Brendel; Otto Johannes (1901-1973); Professor |
| Surname | Brendel |
| Forenames | Otto Johannes |
| Title | Professor |
| Activity | Art historian (specialist in Roman Art) and Professor. |
| Relationships | Husband (m. 1929) to Maria Weigert Brendel (1902-1994); father to Cornelia Foss, née Brendel (1931-). |
| History | trained as painter (1919); research assistant with Ernst Steimann at Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome, where he also met Wittkower and Kitzinger (1922); research assistant to Frederik Pulsen at Ny Carlsberg Glypothek in Copenhagen (1923-1926); received Ph.D. from the Heidelberg University (1928); became first assistant at the AIDR in Rome (1932-); informed his contract would not be extended, probably because of his marriage to [Jewish] Maria Weigert (1935); held fellowship at Durham University (1936); emigrated to the United States (1938); taught at Washington University in St. Louis (1938-1941); taught at Indiana University Bloomington (1941-1956); became Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University (1956); professor emeritus at Columbia (1963-1973). |
| Source | 'Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945', ed. Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider and Jas Elsner (Oxford: OUP, 2017)
Larissa Bonfante, 'Maria Weigert Brendel' (Brown University, ?) |
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