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Eitner, Lorenz Edwin Alfred was born on August 27, 1919 in Brunn, Czechoslovakia. Son of Wilhelm and Katherina (Thonet) Eitner. came to the United States, 1935, naturalized, 1943.
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This new, one-volume edition contains both text and plates and includes corrections in the text and bibliography made since the books publication in 1987. There are concise monographic chapters on the important artists and movements of the period, with material on each artist’s life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of the artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time.The author covers a wide range of material and his presentation is lucid and perceptive. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics and Salon Painters, and Impressionism are covered, and the following artists are included: David, Gros, Girodet, Gérard, Guérin, Prud’hon, Goya, Fuseli, Blake, Runge, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Igres, Géricault, Delacroix, Corot, Rousseau, Daumier, Millet, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Cézanne.
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( This new, one-volume edition contains both text and pla...)
This new, one-volume edition contains both text and plates and includes corrections in the text and bibliography made since the books publication in 1987. There are concise monographic chapters on the important artists and movements of the period, with material on each artist’s life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of the artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time.The author covers a wide range of material and his presentation is lucid and perceptive. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics and Salon Painters, and Impressionism are covered, and the following artists are included: David, Gros, Girodet, Gérard, Guérin, Prud’hon, Goya, Fuseli, Blake, Runge, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Igres, Géricault, Delacroix, Corot, Rousseau, Daumier, Millet, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Cézanne.
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( This new, one-volume edition contains both text and pla...)
This new, one-volume edition contains both text and plates and includes corrections in the text and bibliography made since the books publication in 1987. There are concise monographic chapters on the important artists and movements of the period, with material on each artist’s life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of the artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time.The author covers a wide range of material and his presentation is lucid and perceptive. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics and Salon Painters, and Impressionism are covered, and the following artists are included: David, Gros, Girodet, Gérard, Guérin, Prud’hon, Goya, Fuseli, Blake, Runge, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Igres, Géricault, Delacroix, Corot, Rousseau, Daumier, Millet, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Cézanne.
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Eitner, Lorenz Edwin Alfred was born on August 27, 1919 in Brunn, Czechoslovakia. Son of Wilhelm and Katherina (Thonet) Eitner. came to the United States, 1935, naturalized, 1943.
Bachelor of Arts, Duke U., 1940; Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1952.
Research unit head, Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1946-1947; from instructor to professor art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1949-1963; department chairman art, director music, Stanford University, California, since 1963. Organizer exhibition works of Gericault for museums of Los Angeles, Detroit and Philadelphia, 1971-1972.
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(Book by Lorenz E. A. Eitner)
Member Regional Area Arts Council San Francisco Bay Area. Officer Office of Strategic Services, Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Section head ministries division Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1946-1947.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, College Art Association American (board directors, past vice president), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Trudi von Kathrein, October 26, 1946. Children: Christy, Kathy, Claudia.