Erwin Panofsky

Erwin Panofsky was a German and American art historian, university teacher, art critic, and writer. Born in Hanover in 1892, he studied at the University of Freiburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He earned a doctorate under Wilhelm Vöge and was a student of Margarete Bieber and Adolph Goldschmidt. Panofsky worked at Princeton University, Harvard University, the University of Hamburg, and New York University.

He was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy. His notable works include *Dürers Stellung zur Antike*, *Perspective as symbolic form*, *The Codex Huygens and Leonardo da Vinci's art theory*, *Aufsätze zu Grundfragen der Kunstwissenschaft*, and *Style and medium in the motion pictures*. He received the Haskins Medal. Panofsky died in Princeton in 1968.