Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt

Who was Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt?

Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt was a German classical archaeologist and art historian born in Hanover. He specialized in ancient Greek art, particularly sculpture and art from the "Parthenon era". He was the son of archaeologist Carl Schuchhardt.

Schuchhardt studied archaeology at the Universities of Tübingen, Göttingen and Heidelberg, earning his doctorate in 1923 with a dissertation on Pergamon friezes, titled Die Meister des grossen Frieses von Pergamon.

He received his habiltation in 1929 with the thesis, Die Entstehung des Parthenonfrieses, and later taught classes at the University of Giessen. From 1936 to 1968, he was a professor at the University of Freiburg. Among his better known literary works are the following:

Die Sima des alten Athenatempels der Akropolis,

Die Kunst der Griechen,

Archaische Plastik auf der Akropolis,

Die Epochen der griechischen Plastik,

Griechische Kunst,