Anton Hekler

Anton Hekler (Hungarian: Hekler Antal ) (born February 1, 1882 in Budapest ; † March 3, 1940 ibid) was a Hungarian classical archaeologist and art historian .

Anton Hekler (around 1935)

Life

Hekler received his doctorate in political science in 1903 in Budapest. jur. and enrolled in 1904 in Munich with Adolf Furtwängler to study classical archeology. As early as 1905 he published his first study on ancient sculpture and after a total of two years of study he obtained his second doctorate in Germany. He then went back to Budapest, where he initially worked at the Hungarian National Museum and later was Professor of Archeology and Art History at the University of Budapest . In Hungary he continued to devote himself to ancient art, but also to Hungarian art history. At Hekler's suggestion, the Budapest Art Museum acquired 135 Greek, Roman and Italian sculptures from the Paul Arndts collection in Munich in 1908 and a further 650 terracotta figures in 1914. In the meantime, Hekler had taken on the care of the art museum's sculpture collection on a voluntary basis.
With the book Die Bildniskunst der Greeks & Römer published in Stuttgart and London in 1912 , Hekler wrote a widespread standard work that was also distributed in other languages (so English: Greek and Roman Portraits ).

He had been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1920 . Before 1937 he was awarded the title of Honorary Senator from the University of Wroclaw .

Fonts (selection)

The portrait art of the Greeks & Romans , Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1912
A klasszicizmus jelentősége és térfoglalása az ókori művészetben , Budavári Tudományos Társaság, Budapest 1921
The art of Phidias , Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1924
The Collection of Antique Sculptures , Krystall, Vienna 1929 (The Budapest Collections. The Antiques in Budapest, Section 1)
Budapest as a city of art , Lindner, Küssnacht 1933
The University of Budapest , Lindner, Basel 1935
Hungarian art history , Mann, Berlin 1937
Portraits of famous Greeks , Kupferberg, Berlin 1940 (3rd edition, expanded by Helga von Heintze 1962)

literature

Nándor Láng : Hekler Antal élete és munkássága. (The life and work of Antal Hekler). Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1942, OCLC 909025891 .
Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 331.

Individual evidence

↑ Detailed presentation of the collection and its history in the following lecture: Á. M. Nagy, Classica Hungarica - The Antique Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts (lecture at the Collegium Budapest, May 30, 2005), also online here .
↑ See list of members of the academy here .
↑ Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau (Ed.): Personnel and Lecture Directory: Winter Semester 1937/38 . Breslau 1937, p. 3 ( web link [accessed August 21, 2012]).

personal data
SURNAME	Hekler, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hekler, Antal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian-German classical archaeologist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1940
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Detailed presentation of the collection and its history in the following lecture: Á. M. Nagy, Classica Hungarica - The Antique Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts (lecture at the Collegium Budapest, May 30, 2005), also online here .

[2] See list of members of the academy here .

[3] Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau (Ed.): Personnel and Lecture Directory: Winter Semester 1937/38 . Breslau 1937, p. 3 ( web link [accessed August 21, 2012]).