Stella Kramrisch was an American pioneering art historian and curator who was the leading specialist on Indian art for most of the 20th century.
22 Facts About Stella Kramrisch
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Stella Kramrisch researched and taught Indian art history for more than six decades on three continents.
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In Europe, Kramrisch worked at the Courtauld Institute, London.
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Stella Kramrisch was born on May 29,1896, in Nikolsburg, Austria.
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Stella Kramrisch was trained as a ballet dancer growing up in Austria.
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When Stella Kramrisch was about 10 her parents moved to Vienna.
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Stella Kramrisch enrolled at the University of Vienna, studying at the department of art history with Professors Max Dvorak and Josef Strzygowski.
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Stella Kramrisch focused her studies on Indian art and culture.
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Stella Kramrisch traveled to London in 1919 as part of a university delegation to give three lectures at Oxford.
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Stella Kramrisch was appointed professor of Indian art at the University of Calcutta in 1924.
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Various articles of her colleagues in Vienna appear as English translations in the Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art which Stella Kramrisch edited from 1933 onwards together with Abanindranath Tagore.
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Stella Kramrisch's seminal publication "Indian sculpture" was a profound analysis of Indian sculpture, conceptualized in size and format to function as an actual handbook.
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Stella Kramrisch moved to the United States in 1950, invited by the Sanskritist W Norman Brown to teach in the newly formed Department of South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Stella Kramrisch was Professor of South Asian Art until her retirement in 1969.
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Stella Kramrisch was adjunct professor of Indian Art at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York from 1964 to 1982.
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Stella Kramrisch served as the Curator of Indian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1954 until 1979 and was Curator Emeritus until her death.
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Stella Kramrisch's books include Grundzuge der Indischen Kunst, The Hindu Temple vols.
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Stella Kramrisch was a friend of the ballerina, designer, actress, and collector Natacha Rambova.
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Stella Kramrisch died on August 31,1993, at her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Stella Kramrisch received worldwide recognition for her many achievements, including honorary degrees from Visvabharati University and from the University of Pennsylvania.
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At the time of her death, Stella Kramrisch left a bequest of 25 works to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Stella Kramrisch donated her papers to the museum, which in many ways form the greatest scope of her legacy.