12 Facts About Edgar Wind

Edgar Wind was a British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era.

Edgar Wind was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University.

Edgar Wind received a thorough training in mathematics and philosophical studies, both at his Gymnasium in Charlottenburg, and then at university in Berlin, Freiburg, and Vienna.

Edgar Wind completed his dissertation in Hamburg, where he was Erwin Panofsky's first student.

Edgar Wind left to teach briefly in the United States for financial reasons, but then returned to Hamburg as a research assistant.

Once in London, Edgar Wind taught and became involved with the Warburg Institute, helping found the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute in 1937.

In 1955, Edgar Wind returned to England and became Oxford University's first professor of art history, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1967.

Edgar Wind was an enthusiastic and respected lecturer at many institutions.

Edgar Wind personally encouraged Kitaj, inviting him to tea with him and his wife, Margaret, at his flat in Belsyre Court.

Edgar Wind maintained that "ideas forcefully expressed in art were alive in other areas of human endeavor".

Edgar Wind begins his argument by presenting the long-standing conceptual correlation between art and forces of chaos or disorder, citing a lineage of thinkers and artists including Plato, Goethe, Baudelaire and Burckhardt.

Edgar Wind is quick to acknowledge that society maintains a broad and active concern with art as well as increasingly refined faculties with which to interpret such work.