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Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty. Most interviews were conducted by the historian Richard Cándida Smith

William Sebastian Heckscher was a German-born art historian who studied under Erwin Panofsky at the University of Hamburg and, through Panofsky, became a disciple of the Warburg School. In 1936, Heckscher fled Nazi Germany to the United States. After the war he taught at universities in the United States and the Netherlands. In 1966, he became chair of the Art History Department and later director of the Duke University Museum of Art. Upon his retirement in 1974, he moved to Princeton where he pursued research and advised the Princeton University Library

Forms part of: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)

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