Archaeology and hermeneutics
Subtitle: Nikolaus Himmelmann
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: 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Nikolaus Himmelmann
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.

Nikolaus Himmelmann, a German historian of classical Greek vases, studied at Marburg, Basel and Munich. His dissertation, completed in 1956, was on the Ilissos grave stele from the Kerimeikos. He taught at the universities of Marburg and Saarbrücken. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the university in Bonn.

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