Georg Lippold

Georg Lippold (February 21, 1885 - July 23, 1954) was a German classical archaeologist who was a native of Mainz. Lippold was a specialist of ancient Greek and Roman art.

He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Munich, and was one one of the last students of Adolf Furtwängler (1852-1907), who was a major influence to the career of Lippold. Following graduation he worked at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, and in 1910-11 at the Martin von Wagner Museum in Wurzburg. In 1920 he relocated to the University of Erlangen as a lecturer, where he was a full professor of archaeology from 1925 to 1953.

Lippold succeeded Walther Amelung (1865-1927) as cataloguer of sculptures at the Vatican, and in 1936 published "Die Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums". His second volume of Vatican sculpture was published posthumously in 1956. After the death of archaeologist Paul Arndt in 1937, he took over editorship of "Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Sculptur" (Greek and Roman Sculpture), as well as "Griechische und römische Porträts" (Greek and Roman Portraits). In 1923 he published "Kopien und Umbildungen griechischer Statuen", which was a comprehensive examination of the "copy system" of ancient Greek statues.

Despite his outspoken opposition to Hitler and National Socialism, Lippold retained his professorship at Erlangen.

Selected publications

* "Griechische Porträtstatuen", (Greek Portrait Statues), Munich 1912
* "Kopien und Umbildungen griechischer Statuen" (Copies and Transformations of Greek statues), Munich 1923
* "Griechische Plastik , Handbuch der Archäologie" (Greek sculpture, Textbook of Archaeology), Munich 1950.

References

* [http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/lippoldg.htm Dictionary of Art Historians, Biography]