Carl von Lemcke

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Karl Lemcke

Carl von Lemcke , also Karl (von) Lemcke , pseudonym: Karl Manno (born August 26, 1831 in Schwerin , † April 7, 1913 in Munich ) was a German aesthetician and art historian as well as a songwriter and novelist .

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After completing his schooling at the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin , Lemcke began studying art history and philosophy at the University of Göttingen in 1852 and joined the Hanover fraternity there in 1852 . He later studied at the University of Munich and finally at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1856. This was followed by study and work stays in Berlin, Paris and Munich. Together with his friend and federal brother Karl von Lützow, he was one of the co-founders of the Munich poet group “ The Crocodiles ” and was nicknamed “Hyena” there. This bond of friendship was influenced by Emanuel Geibel, whose relentless demand for the unity of form of poems influenced the poetry written by Lemcke. In 1861 the book "Lieder und Gedichte" by Lemcke was published by Verlag Hoffmann und Campe , Hamburg. Johannes Brahms set at least 12 of these songs to music, the first four as early as 1862 (Opus 41/2 - 41/5).

In 1862 Lemcke returned to Heidelberg University. There he obtained his habilitation with his thesis “Introduction to Aesthetics” and was then taken on as a private lecturer in aesthetics and German literary history and appointed as an associate professor five years later. In those years he wrote his first major major work on “Popular Aesthetics”, which was translated into several languages ​​with the aim of making this scientific field accessible to a broad readership; in addition, he wrote the first volume of his literary history. In 1871 Lemcke moved to the University of Munich . Just two years later, he accepted an appointment at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Reich Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam, where he was given a full professorship for aesthetics and art history. After setting up a corresponding chair at the Aachen Polytechnic, which was founded in 1870 , Lemcke moved to Aachen in 1876, where he became the first professor of general art history and aesthetics.

Numerous biographies and monographs were created here, in particular on Dutch painters for the lexicon "Art and Artists" by Robert Dohme and for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, as well as another important major work in his series on the history of German poetry in recent times: " From Opitz to Klopstock " . In Aachen Lemcke also began to write novels under the pseudonym Karl Manno. From 1881 to 1892 he wrote numerous reviews of fiction works as well as historical stories for the " Deutsche Literaturzeitung ".

Finally, in 1885, Lemcke moved to the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he worked in the same position and as the successor to Wilhelm Lübke until his retirement in 1903. In the years 1892 to 1895 he was elected as the rector of this university, succeeding Jakob Johann von Weyrauch , and at the same time appointed temporary director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , today's Staatsgalerie Stuttgart . In this function, Lemcke showed himself to be an advocate of realism , in particular Dutch painting and contemporary art . The museum also owed him the acquisition of a larger collection of paintings by Christian Landenberger .

In 1899 he was raised to hereditary nobility by the King of Württemberg . After his retirement, Carl von Lemcke moved to Munich. There it was quiet around Lemcke, but he was still a sought-after poet of song texts for important composers of his time such as Franz Wilhelm Abt , Robert von Hornstein , Josef Gabriel Rheinberger , Anton Rubinstein and others.

Works (selection)

  • Songs and poems, Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1861
  • As an introduction to aesthetics , habilitation, Heidelberg University, 1862
  • Popular aesthetics , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1865 GoogleBooks
  • From Opitz to Klopstock, Leipzig , EA Seemann, 1882, new edition of the first volume by Lemcke's history of German poetry . Text about Carl von Lemcke on Wikisource
  • Aesthetics in a public lecture / vol. 1. Concept and Essence d. Aesthetics and a., / Vol. 2. Dt. Art, 1890, 6. again worked through and improved. Edition
  • Novels under the pseudonym "Karl Manno":
    • Beowulf , Berlin 1882, 3 vols.
    • A sweet boy , Berlin 1885,
    • Countess Gerhild , Stuttgart 1892
    • Youth comrades Berlin , 1898, 3 vols

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 15
  2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/details/populreaestheti01lemcgoog
  3. ↑ http://archive.org/details/deutscheliteratu36berluoft
  4. ↑ www.lieder.net/

literature

  • Henning Tegtmeyer : Carl von Lemcke as a poet. In: Federal newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen. Volume 96 (New Series), October 2006, No. 2, pp. 23–26.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 448-450.

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personal data
SURNAME Lemcke, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemcke, Karl von; Lemcke, Carl; Lemcke, Karl; Manno, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aesthetician and art historian as well as rector at the University of Stuttgart
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1913
Place of death Munich