Name Peter Blanckenhagen | ||
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Education Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America | ||
Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen (March 21,1909 in Riga, Latvia – March 6, 1990 in New York, New York) was a scholar of Roman art, and especially ancient wall painting.
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Early life
Born in Latvia, von Blanckenhagen and his family fled to Germany following the Bolshevik Revolution. It was in German universities that he received his training in Classical archaeology.
Career
In 1947, von Blanckenhagen emigrated to the United States and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He would return to Germany, but became an American citizen in 1956. As a scholar he was best known for his expertise in Roman painting and sculpture - particularly of the Flavian period - and he had a long and distinguished career during which he published numerous books and articles and held several eminent lectureships. At his death, von Blanckenhagen was the Robert Lehman Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
Honours
Von Blanckenhagen was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981.He was awarded the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America in 1982.