14 Facts About Richard Krautheimer

Richard Krautheimer was a German art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist.

Richard Krautheimer fought in the First World War as an enlisted soldier in the German army.

Richard Krautheimer completed his dissertation in Halle under Paul Frankl in 1925 with the title Die Kirchen der Bettelorden in Deutschland.

Between 1933 and 1935 Richard Krautheimer worked on the Corpus, accepting paying employment from Frankl's son in the city.

Richard Krautheimer moved to Vassar in 1937 at the request of Vassar's Art Department chair, Agnes Claflin.

Richard Krautheimer was one of the co-founders of the Census research project, which was founded in 1946 as a cooperation between the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Fine Arts.

Richard Krautheimer moved to NYU permanently in 1952 as the Jayne Wrightsman Professor of Fine Arts.

Richard Krautheimer would serve for one semester as acting Director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Richard Krautheimer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958 and the American Philosophical Society in 1965.

Richard Krautheimer next engaged in what he called his most difficult book to research and write: the survey volume on early Christian architecture for the Pelican History of Art.

Richard Krautheimer revised and reissued the work twice, in 1975 and 1979.

In both cases, Richard Krautheimer selected comparatively neglected periods in Roman history to offer a compelling narrative of the interaction of public works and patronage.

Richard Krautheimer's wife had preceded him in death seven years before.

Richard Krautheimer died on 1 November 1994 and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.