Willibald Sauerländer

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)

From the Review

June 28, 2007: The Artist Historian

Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Meyer Schapiro, edited and with an introduction by Linda Seidel

June 22, 2006: The Novelist in the Gallery

Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John Updike

June 27, 2002: 'Nuns As Artists' (letter)

April 25, 2002: Images Behind the Wall

The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

April 13, 2000: The Art of the Cool

Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man by Derek Wilson

Hans Holbein by Oskar Bätschmann, by Pascal Griener

Holbein's Ambassadors Press) by Susan Foister, by Ashok Roy, by Martin Wyld

October 9, 1997: The Riddle of the French Renaissance

L'Art de la Renaissance en France: L'invention du classicisme by Henri Zerner

March 21, 1996: German Art: The Return of the Repressed

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner

February 2, 1995: The Great Outsider

Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Selected Papers, Volume IV by Meyer Schapiro

Romanesque Art (Volume I)

Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries (Volume II)

Late Antique, Early Christian, and Mediaeval Art (Volume III)

April 21, 1994: The Nazis' Theater of Seduction

'Degenerate Art': The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al

The Art of the Third Reich by Peter Adam

Artists Under Vichy: A Case of Prejudice and Persecution by Michèle C. Cone

April 7, 1994: Un-German Activities

Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al.

September 26, 1991: Beat the Devil (letter)

May 30, 1991: Mysteries of a Masterpiece

The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision by Andrée Hayum

The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grünewald's Altarpiece I/University of California Press by Ruth Mellinkoff

March 3, 1988: Rescuing the Past

Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography by E.H. Gombrich

June 26, 1986: Miraculous Mosaics

The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice Vol. I, The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Vol. II, The Thirteenth Century plates (plates in two volumes) by Otto Demus, with contributions from Rudolf M. Kloos, by Kurt Weitzmann

November 8, 1984: Mod Gothic

French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean Bony

Books by Willibald Sauerländer

Cathedrals and Sculpture (1999)
Gothic Sculpture in France 1140-1270 (1972)