WACHSBERGER, Arthur

WACHSBERGER, Arthur. Troppau, Silesia (now Opava in Czech) 7.5.1891 — Haifa 1943. Austrian  Art Historian and Architect. Son of a Jewish merchant. After school in Troppau studied at Vienna. Ph.D. 1914 Vienna (under Strzygowski). Moved to Köln, worked as Assistant in Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst. Served in WW I as…

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ST.GEORGE, Harry Hemersley

ST.GEORGE, Harry Hemersley. 1845 — 18.2.1897.  British Colonial Officer in Sri Lanka. Lieutenant-Colonel. Spent many years in Ceylon, in 1885 participated in Sudan campaign. Last years in Edinburgh. Also an artist who painted landscapes and archaeological objects. Publications: “The Rebellion of Ceylon, and the Progress of its Conquest under the Government…

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ROUSSEAU, Pierre

ROUSSEAU, Pierre (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Composer and Painter. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 in the army. After 1926 seriously ill. He was rather noted composer with wide production of different genres (including the ballet Le Paradis d’Amitabha 1938). Publications: “L’art du Tibet:”, RAA 4, 1927, 21-39 (les…

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PLAESCHKE, Herbert

PLAESCHKE, Herbert Karl Alfred. Wismar 1.6.1928 — 29.12.2002. German (East) Indologist and Art Historian. Son of Alfred Pl., a book dealer, and Margarete Möller. Studies of Oriental archaeology (H. Mode) and Indology (Ammer) at Halle, graduated 1959. Dr.phil. 1963 Halle. Dr.sc. 19??. PD 1971 Halle. Worked as wiss. Mitarbeiter in Universitäts-…

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NUSSBAUM, Louis-Frédéric

NUSSBAUM, Louis-Frédéric (nom-de-plume Louis Frédéric). Paris 1923 —Quincy-sous-Sénart near Paris 24.11.1996. French Artist, Art Historian and Writer. Worked as illustrator, travelled in Africa. Interested in Asia he studied at Sorbonne and É.P.H.É. Dd not enter academic career and remained free author. Knew i.al. Sanskrit, Hindi and Japanese, Publications: Dans les pas du…

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MYER, Prudence R.

MYER, Prudence R. 21.12.1920 — 27.4.2001. U.S. Art Historian. Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College (1956), Professor of Art at Tulane University (1963), Associate Professor of Art at University of California, Santa Barbara (1966). Publications: Articles, e.g. “The Great Temple at Bodh-Gayā”, The Art Bulletin 40, 1958, 277–298; “Stupas and Stupa-Shrines”, Art. As. 24, 1961,…

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LE BONHEUR, Albert

LE BONHEUR, Albert. Saigon 6.8.1938 — 8.2.1996. French Art Historian of South and South-East Asia. Educated in Saigon, Hanoi and Paris, studied art history, Sanskrit and Tamil in Paris. Diplome of École du Louvre 1966. The conservator in Musée Guimet, from 1971 also taught at École du Louvre. Ph.D. 1978 Paris…

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LAUF, Detlef Ingo

LAUF, Detlef Ingo. 1936 — 2001. German or Swiss (?) Tibetologist and Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Ph.D. Dipl.-Psych. He taught as Professor at C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, at Institute of Asian Studies in San Francisco, at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and at Columbia Pacific University in…

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KIPLING, John Lockwood

KIPLING, John Lockwood. Pickering, Yorkshire 6.7.1837 — Tisbury, Wiltshire 26.1.1911. British Art Teacher, Illustrator and Museum Curator in India. Son of Rev. Joseph K. and Frances Lockwood, educated at Wesleyan Woodhouse Grove school. From 1865 Professor of Architectural Sculpture, then Principal at Jeejeebhoy School of Art in Bombay. From 1875…

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JETTMAR, Karl

JETTMAR, Karl Josef. Vienna 8.8.1918 — Heidelberg 28.3.2002. Austrian Anthropologist in Germany, famous Specialist of North Pakistan. Son of Rudolf J. (1869–1939), an Art Nouveau painter, and Maria Mayer, grew up in Vienna. Studied anthropology at Vienna (i.a. under Heine-Geldern). From 1940 served in army, but was wounded and thus could complete…

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