Full Name: Gotsmich, Alois
Gender: male
Date Born: 1895
Date Died: 1974
Place Born: Pilsen, South Bohemia
Place Died: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Home Country/ies: Czechoslovakia
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, and Classical
Overview
Specialist in ancient Greek and Minoan art, particularly the juncture between the preclassical and classical ages. Maintained in 1935 book that the monumental classical Greek sculpture owed much more to the creativity of the Greeks than to “oriental” precursors. Studied at the German University of Prague (1917-1921). Dozent (tutor/lecturer, 1930-1935) and then Professor of Classical Archaeology (1935-1945) at the German University of Prague. A.o. Professor for Archaeology and Epigraphics at Erlangen University (1954-1963).
Selected Bibliography
Entwicklungsgang der kretischen Ornamentik. Gesellschaft zur Förderung deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen, 1923. Studien zur ältesten griechischen Kunst. Prag, 1930. Probleme der frühgriechischen Plastik. 1935. Venus vom Esquilin, in: FuF 25, 1949, 193 ff. Ein attisches Sittenbild aus kimonischer Zeit, in: FuF 28, 1954, 337 ff.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 266-267.