Rudolf Wittkower | |
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Born | Berlin, Germany | 22 June 1901
Died | 11 October 1971 New York City, NY, U.S. | (aged 70)
Occupation | Art historian |
Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the United States. Despite having a British father who stayed in Germany after his studies, he was born and raised in Berlin.[1][2]