Kurt Weitzmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German-American art historian
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Place of Birth: Kleinalmerode, Hesse, Germany
About Kurt Weitzmann
- Kurt Weitzmann (May 7, 1904, Klein Almerode (Witzenhausen, near Kassel) – June 7, 1993, Princeton, New Jersey) was a highly influential art historian who studied Byzantine and medieval art. He attended the universities of Münster, Würzburg and Vienna before moving to Princeton in 1935, due to Nazi persecution.
- He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.
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