Richard Ettinghausen (February 5, 1906 – April 2, 1979)[1] was a German-American historian of Islamic art and chief curator of the Freer Gallery.
[2] In 1934, due to the rise of the Nazis, he immigrated first to Great Britain and then to the United States, where he joined the staff of Arthur Upham Pope at the Institute of Persian Art and Archaeology in New York.
[3] He wrote a book "Arab Painting: Treasures of Asia, Vol IV" published by Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva in 1962.
[3] Together with the Middle East historian R. Bayly Winder he founded the Kevorkian Center the same year at NYU.
[2] Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist, his ties to Israel found expression in his promotion of the establishment of a museum for Islamic art in Jerusalem.