Hans-Karl Lücke

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Hans-Karl Lücke (born August 11, 1927 in Bartenstein , East Prussia , † April 30, 2009 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Hans-Karl Lücke was the son of a Prussian government councilor who moved with his family several times for professional reasons. Around 1936 the family settled permanently in Königsberg , where Hans-Karl Lücke attended high school. In 1942, at the age of 15, he was drafted into the army of the Wehrmacht to serve in the anti-aircraft gun. When he was later to be accepted into the Waffen-SS , he enlisted in the Navy , and in 1945 he was captured by the Canadian prisoners of war in Schleswig-Holstein . After his release from captivity, he settled in Ratzeburg , where he attended the Lauenburg School of Academics until he graduated in 1949 . In the same year he enrolled at the University of Kiel , where he began to study philosophy and history . During the course of his studies, he switched to art history, where he continued to devote himself to philosophy and the history of the Middle Ages . At the university he met his future wife, the art historian Susanne David (Lücke-David).

He was born in 1962 with the dissertation 'Eurythmia' and 'Varietas'. PhD studies on determinations of the perfect building from Vitruvius to Quatremère de Quincy . The following year, he started for the Central Institute for Art History in Munich with the development of the Alberti index , a text-related explanatory dictionary to the work of Leon Battista Alberti , where he worked until the 1975th In addition, he worked for the Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , which was published at the same institute , until he was appointed to the University of Toronto in 1969 . Until his retirement in 1996 he taught in Toronto and gave lectures on architecture in France and Italy. After his retirement, he and his wife devoted themselves to the afterlife of classical mythology in European art, while continuing to deal with the Italian Renaissance.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Klaus Lankheit : Eucharist . In: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte 6, Munich 1973, Sp. 154–254
  • Eur (h) ythmia . In: ib., Col. 361-366
  • Exposure . In: ib., Col. 714-719
  • Alberti Index. Leon Battista Alberti. De re aedificatoria. Index verborum , 3 volumes. Prestel, Munich 1975-1979. Volume 4: Leoan Battista Alberti. De re aedificatoria, Florence 1485. Facsimile
  • Mercurius quadratus: On anthropometry in Cesariano. In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz 35, 1991, pp. 61–84
  • 'Carmen Senum.' Praise to a perfect state or: 1 + 2 + 3 = Sena. Siena and a "perfect" number. In: ib. 36, 1992, pp. 263-274
  • Alberti, Vitruvio e Cicerone. In: Joseph Rykwert, Anne Engel (ed.): Leon Battista Alberti . Città di Mantova, Centro Internazionale d'arte e di cultura di Palazzo Tè. Electa, Milan 1994, pp. 70-94
  • 'Comparatio' in LBAlberti: Reflexion and Aesthetic Structure in Architecture. In: Leon Battista Alberti. Congrès International, Paris 10-15 Avril 1995, pp. 749-762
  • with Susanne Lücke: Ancient Mythology. A manual. The myth and its transmission in literature and fine arts. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999
  • The building as a work of thought Part 1. In: Albertiana Vol. 4, 2001, pp. 99–158. Part 2. In: Albertiana Vol. 5. V, 2002, pp. 7-60
  • Space and Time in Alberti's Concept of the Perfect Building. Observations in Historical Context. In: Leon Battista Alberti. Teorico delle arti e gli impegni civili del 'De re aedificatoria'. Atti dei convegni internazionali del Comitato Nazionale VI centenario della nascita di Leon Battista Alberti, Mantova, 17-19 ottobre 2002, 23-25 ​​ottobre 2003. In: Ingenium N. 9, II, pp. 651-665
  • with Susanne Lücke: Heroes and deities of antiquity. A manual. The myth and its transmission in literature and fine arts. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002
  • Ornamentum, Reconsidered. Observations on Alberti's 'De re aedificatoria librit decem.' In: Albertiana Vol. 7, 2004, pp. 99-113
  • with Susanne Lücke: The gods of the Greeks and Romans . Marix, Wiesbaden 2007
  • The picture as mirror-image: Observations on the occasion of LB Alberti's treatise on painting. In: Francesco Furlan, Gianni Venturi (eds.): Leon Battista Alberti. Gli Este e l'Alberti: tempo e misura. Actes du Congrès International . Pisa 2010, pp.? -?

Translation (among others)

  • Andrea Palladio : The Four Books on Architecture. (I quattro libri dell 'architettura). Marix, Wiesbaden 2008 (bilingual Italian-German)

literature

Françoise Choay: In Memoriam Hans-Karl Lücke . In: Albertiana Vol. 12, 2010, pp. 3-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lücke, Hans-Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bartenstein
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2009