Richard Ettinghausen [SEP] place of death
Richard Ettinghausen
Richard Ettinghausen (February 5, 1906 – April 2, 1979) Princeton, New Jersey was a German-American historian of Islamic art and chief curator of the Freer Gallery.
Education.
Ettinghausen was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt in 1931 in Islamic history and art history.
Career.
From 1929 to 1931, he worked on the Islamic collection of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin under the direction of Ernst Kühnel and the collector
the World in 100 Objects" selected by British Museum director Neil MacGregor and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
References.
- Erdmann, Kurt, 1949, "An Unknown Hedwig Glass" "The Burlington Magazine", Vol. 91, No. 558 (Sep., 1949), pp. 244+247-249
- Ettinghausen, R. and Grabar, Oleg, 1987, "The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250", Pelican History of Art pages 196-7
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