Kleiner, Gerhard

Date born:  1908

Place Born:  Seelow

Date died:  1978

Place died:  Milet

Specialist in classical Greek art and its subsequent influence on Renaissance art. Kleiner wrote his dissertation under Ernst Buschor (q.v.).  Ordentliche (full) Professor at Hamburg University, 1950-1952. Second Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul (German Archaeological Institute, or DAI) 1954-1956. Professor at the University of Frankfurt, 1956-. Led excavation efforts at Milet in the final years of his life. His students included Helga von Heintze (q.v.).

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 305-306.

Bibliography:  Tanagrafiguren. 1942; Bildnis Alexander des Großen. 1951; Die Begegnungen Michelangelos mit der Antike. 1950; Die Inspiration des Dichters. 1949; Alt Milet. 1966.