Rintelen, Friedrich

Date born:  February 20, 1881

Place Born:  Berlin, Germany

Date died:  May 4, 1926

Place died:  Catania, Italy

Giotto scholar and professor of art, Basle. His undergraduate students at Basle included Hans Hahnloser.

His methodology was carried on by Theodor Hetzer. Rintelen's opinions were so valued they were pencilled in as notes by Richard Offner in Offner's copy of the 1937 catalog Mostra Giottesca.

Home Country: Germany

Sources: German Essays on Art History.  Gert Schiff, ed.  New York: Continuum, 1988, p. xxxix mentioned;  Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. 2nd. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2007, pp. 348-349; Ladis, Andrew.  "The Unmaking of a Connoisseur."  in, Offner, Richard.  A Discerning Eye:  Essays on Early Italian Painting.  University Park, PA:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p,19, note 1.

Bibliography:[bibliography:] Dvorák, Max. Idealism and Naturalism in Gothic Art. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967, p. 221, works cited only; Giotto und die Giotto-Apokryphen. Munich: Müller, 1912;  Reden und Aufsätze. Edited by Edith Rintelin. Basel: Schwabe, 1927.

Subject's name: Friedrich Rintelen