Partnership and discovery, Margot and Rudolf Wittkower
Subtitle: Margot Wittkower
By: interviewed by Teresa  Barnett ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Barnett, Teresa, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Margot Wittkower
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.
Notes: Includes index.

Open for 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.

German-born art historian Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) and interior designer Margot Wittkower, née Holzmann (1902-1995), were married in 1923.  The couple, both Jewish, fled Nazi Germany in 1933 for London, as Rudolf Wittkower was a British citizen through his British-born father, Henry. There Rudolf joined the staff of the Warburg Institute and Margot designed apartment interiors and furniture, specializing in neo-Palladian architecture. This style of architecture eventually became her expertise.   As Margot was also an Italian Renaissance and Baroque specialist, the couple collaborated on the publications Born under Saturn (1963) and The divine Michelangelo (1964).

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