Margot Wittkower, née Margot Holzmann (August 28, 1902 – July 3, 1995),[1] was a German-American Interior designer and art historian specializing in neo-Palladian architecture and Italian Renaissance and Baroque period.
[2] Rudolf began teaching at Cologne University in 1932, but because Wittkower was Jewish, she was forced to leave Germany due to Nazi control.
Margot specialized in apartment interiors and furniture design at this time and both husband and wife were drawn to neo-Palladian architecture.
Starting around the mid-1950s she co-authored various books with her husband, many of which are significant today in the area of Italian Art History.
[3] Together they documented in their writings the change from craftsmen to artist during the Renaissance.