Homann-Wedeking, Ernst
Date born: 1908 Place born: Date died: 2002 Place died: Classical art historian; associated with the DAI during the year
of Nazi dominance. Homann-Wedeking formed a group of young assistants
under the direction of Walther Wrede (q.v.) at the DAI (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut)
in Athens in late 1930s. In the post-war years, Homann-Wedeking was
director of the Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Universität München,
Ludwig Maximillians Universtiy, 1959-73. Home Country: Germany Sources: "German Archaeological Institute -- Athens." Encyclopedia
of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 495. Bibliography: Die Anfänge der griechischen Grossplastik. Berlin:
Gebr. Mann, 1950; Das archaische Griechenland. Baden-Baden: Holle,
1966, English, The Art of Archaic Greece. New York: Crown Publishers,
1968; Archaische Vasenornamentik in Attika, Lakonien und Ostgriechenland.
Athens: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 1938; "Italische Nymphe." Antike
und Abendland 8 (1959): 127-132.