!!!Pächt, Otto

b. Vienna, Sept. 7, 1902, Vienna, April 17, 1988, art historian. 1933 
habilitation in Heidelberg, then emigrated to England, Taught in 
London, New York, Princeton and Cambridge; 1963-1972 university 
professor in Vienna. Wrote numerous important works mainly concerning 
the development of style of 15th century European art and medieval 
book illumination.

!Works
Oe. Tafelmalerei der Gotik, 1929; The Master of Mary of 
Burgundy, 1948; Italian Illuminated Manuscripts form 1400-1550, 1948; 
Byzantine Illumination, 1952; Flemish Art 1300-1700, 1953; The St. 
Albans Psalter, 1960 (with C. R. Dodwell and F. Wormald); The Rise of 
Pictorial Narrative in Twelfth-Century England, 1962; Vita Sancti 
Simperti, 1964; Die Illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Oe. 
Nationalbibl., parts I-III, 1974-1983 (with U. Jenni and T. Thoss); 
Historia Romanorum, 1974 (with T. Brandis); Methodisches zur 
kunsthist. Praxis, 1977; Buchmalerei des MA, 1984; Rembrandt Harmensz 
van Rijn, 1991; Van Eyck, 1993.

!Literature
O. P. Am Anfang war das Auge, in: M. Sitt (ed.), 
Kunsthistoriker in eigener Sache, 1988.


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