Margot Wittkower
Margot Wittkower, née Margot Holzmann (August 28, 1902 – July 3, 1995), was a German-American Interior designer and art historian specializing in neo-Palladian architecture and Italian Renaissance and Baroque period.
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Margot Wittkower
- Name
- Margot Wittkower
- Born
- 28 August 1902
- Died
- 3 July 1995
- Occupation
- Art historian
- Full name
- Margot Holzmann.
- Nationality
- Germany and United States.
- Fields
- interior, architecture, Renaissance and Baroque.
- Languages
- German and English.
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Margot Wittkower, née Margot Holzmann (August 28, 1902 – July 3, 1995), was a German-American Interior designer and art historian specializing in neo-Palladian architecture and Italian Renaissance and Baroque period.
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• Name — Margot Wittkower • Born — 28 August 1902 • Died — 3 July 1995 • Occupation — Art historian
Life and work
Life and work
Born August 28, 1902, as Margot Holzmann in Berlin, Germany. She was primarily an artist but later established herself as an interior designer. She met her future husband Rudolf Wittkower when she was just age 16 however they waited until 1923 to marry, due to their young ages. Rudolf began teaching at Cologne University in 1932, but because Wittkower was Jewish, she was forced to leave Germany due to Nazi control. In 1933 the couple moved to London. Margot specialized in apartment interiors and furniture design at this time and both husband and wife were drawn to neo-Palladian architecture. Starting around the mid-1950s she co-authored various books with her husband, many of which are significant today in the area of Italian Art History. Together they documented in their writings the change from craftsmen to artist during the Renaissance. She died at age 93 at her home in Manhattan.
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Margot Wittkower is recorded with the occupation art historian. Recorded as art historian and designer. Recorded at birth as Margot Holzmann. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Margot Holzmann. Her recorded languages were German and English. She married Rudolf Wittkower.
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1902
Margot Wittkower born at Berlin.
1995
Margot Wittkower died at Manhattan.
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Berlin.
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Manhattan.
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Publications
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque (1955, co-authored with Rudolf Wittkower, Howard Hibbard, Thomas Martin) • Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists: Documented History from Antiquity to the French Revolution (1963, co-authored with Rudolf Wittkower) • Divine Michelangelo: The Florentine Academy's Homage on His Death in 1564 (1964, co-authored with Rudolf Wittkower) • Sculpture: Processes and Principles (1977, co-authored with Rudolf Wittkower) • Congress: Process and Policy (1978, co-authored with Randall B. Ripley) • Selected Lectures of Rudolf Wittkower: The Impact of Non-European Civilization on the Art of the West (1989, co-authored with Rudolf Wittkower, Donald Martin Reynolds) • Partnership and discovery, Margot and Rudolf Wittkower (1994)
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- 1.Newhouse, Victoria. Margot Wittkower: Design Education and Practice, Berlin–London, 1919–1939. Journal of Design History. 3. 2–3. 83–101. 1990. 10.1093/jdh/3.2-3.83.
- 2.Sorensen, Lee. Margot Wittkower née Holzmann. Dictionary of Art Historians. November 27, 2000.
- 3.Authors, Margot and Rudolf Wittkower. New York Review Books.
- 4.Parker, Rozsika. Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology. I. B.Tauris & Company, Limited. 86. July 30, 2013. 978-1780764047.
- 5.Obituaries, Margot Wittkower; Interior Designer, 93. The New York Times. July 13, 1995.
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