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Erwin Panofsky: Life, Work, and Legacy

Born in Hannover, Germany in 1892, Panofsky matriculated at the universities of Munich and Freiburg before receiving his D.Phil. in 1914 from the University of Freiburg. Afterwards, he continued to study art history in Berlin. In 1916, he married Dora Mosse, eight years his senior. They had two sons, Hans (1917–88) and Wolfgang (1919–2007). Hans became a professor of atmospheric sciences at Penn State and Wolfgang was a physics professor at Stanford University.

Panofsky was named a Privatdozent at the newly founded University of Hamburg in 1921, serving as its first full professor in art history from 1927. From 1931 to 1934 he was a Visiting Professor of Fine Arts at New York University, spending alternate terms in New York and at the University of Hamburg, until his tenure there came to an abrupt end, when he was dismissed from his Hamburg position upon the enactment of the new Nazi laws in April 1933. In an account of his experience of immigration to America, he wryly observed that the cable notifying him of the dismissal was sealed w

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Full Name: Panofsky, Erwin

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Gender: male

Date Born: 30 March 1892

Date Died: 14 March 1968

Place Born: Hanover, Germany

Place Died: Princeton, Mercer, NJ, USA

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): iconography

Career(s): art historians

Overview

Warburg Institute and Institute for Advanced Study art historian; major exponent of iconography to American scholars. Panofsky was the son of Arnold Panofsky (d. 1914) and Caecilie Solling (Panofsky), wealthy Jews whose fortune came from Silesian mining. He was raised in Berlin, receiving his Abitur in 1910 at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium. He spent the years 1910-1914 studying philosophy, philology and art history in Jura, Berlin (where he heard lectures of the art historian Margarete Bieber, who was filling in for Georg Loeschcke), and in Munich. While taking courses at Freiburg Universität, a slightly older student, Kurt Badt, took Panofsky to hear a lecture by the founder of the art history department, Wilhelm Vöge. Panofsky was at once enamored and wrote his dissertation under Vöge

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Panofsky – the 3 phases of the iconological method of art analysis

Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) was a German art historian marked the history of art in the 20th century through his studies of iconology. His work significantly shaped the academic study of art and cultural interpretation.

In this article we will analyze the iconological analysis method with some practical examples.

By Yolanda Silva, author of the online courses Art Analysis and Iconography

The Erwin Panofsky method of iconological analysis

In 1939, Panofsky presents his method of iconological analysis of art.

For Erwin Panofsky the art analysis could not merely depend upon literary sources, which after all, are not always available.

Erwin Panofsky goes on to investigate the way in which, according to the different historical conditions to which the artist is subjected, themes, subjects or facts are chosen to be represented. I.e., he defends the study of meanings.

Erwin Panofsky

Erwin Panofsky gave this example:

A man raises his hat. In iconographic terms, we basically see is the action in w