Friedrich Lucanus

Friedrich Gottfried Hermann Lucanus (born December 3, 1793 in Halberstadt ; † May 23, 1872 there ) was a German pharmacist , art lover and restorer.

In 1756 he wrote the chronicle about the village of Schachdorf Ströbeck and its chess tradition. His ancestors had already written down the history of Halberstadt ( Lucan library from the period 1556 to 1732). In 1828, with the help of Werner Friedrich Julius Stephan von Spiegel, he founded the Halberstädter Kunstverein . In 1839 he experimented with the photographic process of daguerreotype .

Lucanus' son was a lawyer and politician Hermann von Lucanus .

Works

Halberstadt Cathedral. Its history, architecture, antiquities and art treasures are illustrated by text, a steel engraving and six etched sheets. Berlin, George Gropius (1837).
Instructions for restoring old oil paintings and for cleaning and bleaching copper engravings and woodcuts. 1st edition, Leipzig, Baumgärtner (1828).
Thorough and complete instructions for the preservation, cleaning and restoration of the paintings in oil, tempera, glue, water, miniature, pastel and wax colors: for the preparation of the varnishes useful for painting and covering, as well as for bleaching, cleaning and Mount the copperplate engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etc. s. w. 2nd edition, Halberstadt, Friedrich August Helm (1832).
Complete instructions for maintaining, cleaning and restoring the paintings, for preparing the varnishes, as well as for mounting, cleaning, bleaching and restoring the copperplate engravings. 3. multiple verb. u. Probably ed., Halberstadt, Friedrich August Helm (1842).
Complete instructions for the preservation, cleaning and restoration of the paintings, for the preparation of the varnishes, as well as for mounting, cleaning, bleaching and restoring the copperplate engravings, etc. New cheap edition of the 3rd var. verb. and probably ed., Halberstadt, Friedrich August Helm (1856).
Complete instructions for maintaining, cleaning and restoring the paintings, for preparing the varnishes, as well as for mounting, cleaning, bleaching and restoring the copperplate engravings, etc. 4th edition, Halberstadt, Friedrich August Helm (1881).
The restorer's practice. Complete instructions for the preservation, cleaning and restoration of paintings, watercolors, copperplate engravings etc. 5th edition based on the current state of the art, revised by Dr. Hans Bohm. Schönherr, Halberstadt (1929).

literature

Doris Derdey: Ernst Helbig - traces of a painter

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personal data
SURNAME	Lucanus, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lucanus, Friedrich Gottfried Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pharmacist, art lover and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH	May 23, 1872
Place of death	Halberstadt