»Die mittelalterliche Architektur ist nun einmal durchaus international«: Anmerkungen zu Ingo Herklotz, <i>Richard Krautheimer in Deutschland: Aus den Anfängen einer wissenschaftlichen Karriere 1925–1933</i>
Peter Seiler
Abstract In Richard Krautheimer in Deutschland , Ingo Herklotz explores the beginnings of Krautheimer’s academic career. Based on a wealth previously unpublished sources, he argues that groundbreaking essays “The Carolingian Revival Early Christian Architecture” and “Introduction to an ‘Iconography Medieval Architecture’” reach back his early days Weimar Germany. also contends young scholar’s writings show one-sided orientation toward methodological concepts autonomous history style striving for “German national identity”. However, neither contention seems plausible. As can be demonstrated, had already taken vigorously European view medieval architecture dissertation mendicant orders Germany book synagogues, indeed realised potential cultural-historical context analyses on.
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