Hempel, Eberhard

Date born:  1886

Place Born:  Dresden, Germany

Date died:  1967

Place died:  Dresden, Germany

Architectural historian of the baroque period.  Author of first modern monograph on Borromini (1924) (Montagu/Connors).

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 169-71; [mentioned] Jennifer Montagu and Joseph Connors.  "Rudolf Wittkower 1901-1971."  Introduction to Art and Architecture in Italy:  1600-1750. 6th edition, volume 1, Painting in Italy.  Pelican History of Art.  pp. ix.

Bibliography:  Baroque art and architecture in central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland. Painting and sculpture: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; architecture: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. [Translated from the German by Elisabeth Hempel and Marguerite Kay].  Baltimore, MD:   Penguin Books, 1965;  Geschichte der deutschen Baukunst.  Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1949;  Michael Pacher.Vienna:  A. Schroll, 1931;  Der Zwinger zu Dresden:  Grundzuge und Schicksal seiner künstlerischen Gestaltung.  Berlin:  Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1961.