Ernst Pfuhl

Ernst Pfuhl (17 November 1876, Charlottenburg – 7 August 1940, Basel) was a German-Swiss classical archaeologist and art historian.

He was the son of sculptor Johannes Pfuhl (1846–1914) and a son-in-law to art dealer Athanasios Rhousopoulos (1823–1898).

[2] He remained at Basel until his death in 1940, his successor being Karl Schefold.

[1] In 1923 he published his main work, titled Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen; and during the following year, a shortened version was issued ("Meisterwerke griechischer Zeichnung und Malerei"), which was later translated into English by John Beazley and published as "Masterpieces of Greek Drawing and Painting" (1926).

In 1946 Hans Möbius took charge of compiling Pfuhl's corpus of Greek grave reliefs — these were eventually published in 1977 as Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs.