Kurt Weitzmann (March 7, 1904, Kleinalmerode, Witzenhausen – June 7, 1993, Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-born American art historian who was a leading figure in the study of Late Antique and Byzantine art in particular.
He attended the universities of Münster, Würzburg and Vienna before moving to Princeton in 1935, due to Nazi persecution. He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1964 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978. He received the 1995 .
Works Greek mythology in Byzantine art, 1951 Geistige Grundlagen und Wesen der makedonischen Renaissance, 1963 Illustration roll and codex, 1947, 21970 "Studies in manuscript illumination" series The Joshua Roll, 1948 The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria di Castelseprio, 1952 Ancient book illumination, 1959 Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, 1970 The Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, The Icons, I. 1976 Studies in classical and Byzantine manuscript illumination, 1971 Byzantine book illumination and ivories, 1980 Byzantine liturgical Psalters and Gospels, 1980 (with H. L. Kessler) The Frescoes of the Dura Synagogue and Christian Art, 1990
See also Paris Psalter Castelseprio Adolph Goldschmidt
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http://arthistorians.info/weitzmannk Bibliography Kurt Weitzmann Estate Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler