Gratia Dei sum qui sum
Subtitle: William S. Heckscher
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Los Angeles]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: William S. Heckscher
Description: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty. Most interviews were conducted by the historian Richard Cándida Smith.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

William Sebastian Heckscher was a German-born art historian who studied under Erwin Panofsky at the University of Hamburg and, through Panofsky, became a disciple of the Warburg School. In 1936, Heckscher fled Nazi Germany to the United States. After the war he taught at universities in the United States and the Netherlands.  In 1966, he became chair of the Art History Department and later director of the Duke University Museum of Art.  Upon his retirement in 1974, he moved to Princeton where he pursued research and advised the Princeton University Library.

Forms part of: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)