Diez, Ernst

Date born: 1878

Place Born:  Lölling, Austria

Date died: 1961

Place died:  Vienna, Austria

Byzantinist, Strzygowski student and professor at Bryn Mawr College, 1939-1943. 1919 Lecturer, University of Vienna; 1926-1939 professor at Bryn Mawr; 1939-1943 returned to Vienna; Associate Professor, 1943-1949 first professor of art history in Ankara.

Together with Curt Glaser and Ernst Grosse, Diez established the theoretic foundation for Asian art in the German-speaking world (Metzler).

Home Country:  Austria

Sources: Kleinbauer, W. Eugene.  Modern Perspectives in Western Art History:  An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts.  New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, pp. 23, 50 mentioned;  Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon.  Stuttgart:  J. B. Metzler, 1999, pp. 59-61.

Bibliography: and Otto Demus. Byzantine Mosaics in Greece, Hosios Lucas and Daphni. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931.

Subject's name: Ernst Diez