Spirit and project
Subtitle: Eduard F. Sekler
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: 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Eduard F. Sekler
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.

Eduard F. Sekler is an architect, architectural historian, and expert on the preservation of historical monuments. Originally from Vienna, Sekler studied in London under Rudolf Wittkower at the Warburg Institute. He received his doctorate from Warburg in 1948 before becoming visiting professor of architecture at Harvard University in 1955. Between 1951 and 1954, Sekler joined UNESCO's International Committee on Historical Monuments, Artistic, Historical and Archaeological Sites, and became a founding member of ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites).

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