{{short description|German art historian}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Walter Friedlaender|date=May 2010}} '''Walter Ferdinand Friedlaender''' (March 10, 1873 – September 8, 1966) was a German art historian (who should not be confused with Max Jakob Friedländer).
Walter Friedlaender was the son of Sigismund Friedlaender and Anna Joachimsthal. Born in Glogau, he was taught art history by Heinrich Wölfflin and others. Among his first students was Erwin Panofsky.
He taught at the Freiburg University (1914–1933<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/freiburg_synagoge_a.htm|title=Die Synagoge in Freiburg im Breisgau (Baden-Württemberg)|website=www.alemannia-judaica.de}}</ref>), and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1935-1966).
According to architecture and art historian Rocky Ruggiero,<ref>Ruggiero, Rocky, ''[https://rockyruggiero.com/episode-189-theory-what-is-mannerism Theory — What is Mannerism]?'', Episode 189, Rebuilding the Renaissance, ''Making Art and History Come To Life'', August 11, 2022 (podcast)</ref> in a seminal observation about Mannerism by Friedlaender in his work, ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting'', he presented the most sophisticated explanation of the transition from Renaissance art into the modern subjective "-isms" that followed the Baroque synthesis of Renaissance and High Renaissance styles.<ref>Friedlaender, Walter. 1965. ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting''. New York: Schocken. LOC 578295 (First edition, New York: Columbia University Press, 1958)</ref> The concept Friedlaender presented was that artists moved from the objective and scientific work of Leonardo Da Vinci to the subjective presentations that have followed the break with Classical styles.
Friedlaender died in New York.
== Works == * ''David to Delacroix'', 1952 * ''Caravaggio Studies'', 1955<ref name=Venturi>{{cite journal|last=Venturi|first=Lionello|title=Caravaggio Studies by Walter Friedländer|journal=The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism|date=March 1957|volume=15|issue=3|pages=367–368|doi=10.2307/427310|jstor=427310}}</ref> * ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting'', 1957 * ''Mannerism and Anti-mannerism in Italian Painting'', 1965 * ''Poussin''. The Library of Great Painters. 1964. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. New York, N.Y. 204 pp.
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== External links == * [http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/friedlanderw.htm ''Dictionary of Art Historians'': "Walter Friedlaender"] (English) * [http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=163100 Guide to the Papers of Walter Friedlaender (1873–1966)] at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
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