Background
Leopold was born on April 20, 1913, in Germany.
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- Works
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- Works
book
Kandinsky's "At rest."
https://www.amazon.com/Kandinskys-rest-Charlton-lectures-art/dp/B0007DQJKU/?tag=2022091-20
1961
Sistine Chapel Before Michelangelo
https://www.amazon.com/Sistine-Chapel-Michelangelo-Warburg-Studies/dp/0198171498/?tag=2022091-20
1965
Botticelli
https://www.amazon.com/Botticelli-World-Leopold-Ettlinger-1976-11-08/dp/B01K0V7GW8/?tag=2022091-20
1976
Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo
https://www.amazon.com/Antonio-Pollaiuolo-Leopold-Ettlinger-1978-08-24/dp/B01K912PSY/?tag=2022091-20
1978
Raphael
https://www.amazon.com/Raphael-Leopold-D-Ettlinger-1987-04-09/dp/B01HC9VHHQ/?tag=2022091-20
1987
Leopold David Ettlinger
Edit ProfileEducation
Leopold attended Halle and Marburg universities.
Career
Leopold came to England in 1938 as a refugee from the Nazi regime. In England, he was a social worker in children’s refugee camps during the war and taught at Birmingham’s Edward VI’s school for six years.
In 1948 he accepted a position at the Warburg Institute in London, serving as curator of the photographic collection and as a lecturer. He was awarded a fellowship from Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in 1956. In 1970 Ettlinger accepted a professorship at the University of California at Berkeley and remained until 1980.
Ettlinger’s Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo: Complete Edition with a Critical Catalogue, is a discussion and catalog of the works of the fifteenth-century artist brothers. Times Literary Supplement reviewer Gregory Martin called Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo a “scholarly, well-produced monograph.”
Achievements
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Leopold David Ettlinger was known mainly as a Warburg Institute historian of the Italian renaissance and the University of California, Berkeley Art Department Chair. Besides, during his tenure at the University of London, he wrote his best-known work, The Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo: Religious Imagery and Papal Primacy, and helped establish joint degree programs in the art history department.
Works
book
- Botticelli 1976
- Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo 1978
- Kandinsky's "At rest." 1961
- Sistine Chapel Before Michelangelo 1965
- Raphael 1987
Connections
Leopold David Ettlinger married three times. His third wife was Helen Shahrokh Ettlinger. They later divorced.
References
Career
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1937 - 1980
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1948
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1959 - 1970
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1970 - 1980