Stella Kramrisch

Stella Kramrisch
Stella Kramrisch at the Himalayan Art installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1978.
Born	(1896-05-29)May 29, 1896 Nikolsburg, Austria
Died	August 31, 1993(1993-08-31) (aged 97) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Citizenship	American
Education	University of Vienna
Known for	Leading specialist on Indian art for most of the 20th century
Spouse	Laszlo Nemenyi
Awards	Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
Scientific career
Fields	Art history
Institutions	Kala Bhavana
Thesis	The Essence of Early Buddhist Sculpture in India  (1919)
Academic advisors	Max Dvořák

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.^[1]