Stella Kramrisch
Stella Kramrisch (May 29, 1896 – August 31, 1993) was an American pioneering
art historian and curator who was the leading specialist on
Indian art for most of the 20th century. Her scholarship remains a benchmark to this day. She researched and taught Indian art history for more than six decades on three continents. After writing her dissertation on the essence of early-buddhist sculpture in India, she was invited to teach at
Kala Bhavana in
Shantiniketan (1922–24) and went on to teach at
Calcutta University from 1924 to 1950. In Europe, Kramrisch worked at the
Courtauld Institute, London (1937–1940). From 1950, she was professor at the
University of Pennsylvania in the Department of South Asia Regional Studies, where she had been recruited by
W. Norman Brown, in addition to being a prominent curator at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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