Style and its meaning in early medieval art
Subtitle: Ernst Kitzinger
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
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Ernst Kitzinger
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 bibliographical references and 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.

Ernst Kitzinger was a German-born historian of late classical, early medieval and Byzantine art. Of a Jewish family, Kitzinger left Germany in 1934 shortly after defending his doctoral thesis and moved to England where he joined the staff of the British Museum. In 1941, Kitzinger emigrated to the United States and became a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.  There he became Director of Byzantine Studies from 1955 to 1966. In 1967, Kitzinger joined the faculty at Harvard, where he taught until his retirement in 1979. After retirement, he divided his time between Oxford and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

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