Rudolf Wittkower
Rudolf Wittkower | |
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Rudolf Wittkower, 1967 | |
| Born | 22 June 1901 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 11 October 1971 (aged 70) New York City, NY, U.S. |
| Occupation | Art historian |
Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the United States. Despite having a British father who stayed in Germany after his studies, he was born and raised in Berlin.