Hermann Lüer
Hermann Lüer (born August 12, 1870 in Bruchhausen-Vilsen , Hanover Province , † February 11, 1962 in Bad Hersfeld ) was a German architect , art historian and director of the Kassel School of Applied Arts .
Life
Hermann Lüer was born as the son of the actuary and later lawyer and HR manager of the Hanoverian district courts, Georg Christian Ludwig Lüer and Sophie Caroline Marie Jansen. He had the brothers Kurt and Otto . After graduating from high school, he first studied architecture at the TH Hannover . After that he began in 1895 to study art history at the University of Munich , which he first at the University of Berlin and then at the University of Heidelberg continued where he in 1897 with a dissertation " Japanese stitch leaves " doctorate was. He then became assistant director at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin . In 1904 he went to the technical school for the Solingen industry as head , then he became director of the technical school for the metal industry in Iserlohn . In 1914 he became the director of the arts and crafts school in Kassel, probably until 1931, when Hans Sautter took over this post.
Lüer was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB). He especially excelled with works on metal art. For example, he examined the wrought-iron grating within Magdeburg Cathedral , which separates the small choir from the nave of the church, although he did not find any such expansively ornamented models in Germany itself, but also ruled out a direct dependence on similar choir screens in Italy and England.
In 1903 he married Maria Christiane Mathilde Magdalene Genzken, with whom he had three sons.
Publications (selection)
- About Japanese guard sheets . Inaugural dissertation, Heidelberg 1897.
- The development in art: an attempt to explain . Heitz, Strasbourg, 1901.
- Technique of bronze sculpture . Seemann, Leipzig 1902.
- Chandeliers and Lanterns, Museum of Decorative Arts . Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1903.
- with Max Creutz : History of Metal Art. Volume 1. Art history of base metals: wrought iron, cast iron, bronze, tin, lead and zinc . Enke, Stuttgart 1904.
- with Max Creutz: History of Metal Art. Volume 2: Art History of Noble Metals . Enke, Stuttgart, 1909.
- Form and reality in the course of history . Kampmann, Kampen, 1937.
- as co-editor
- Monographs of the arts and crafts . Edited together with Jean Louis Sponsel , Gustav Edmund Pazaurek , Adolf Brüning , Richard Borrmann , Wilhelm von Bode , Ferdinand Luthmer , Christian Scherer , Cornelius von Fabriczy , Verlag Seimann, Leipzig, 1901.
- Masterpieces of art from Saxony and Thuringia: paintings, sculptures, carved altars, medals, illuminations, weavings, embroidery, fine blacksmithing . Edited together with Oscar Doering, Georg Voss, Max Friedländer, Max Creutz, Behrendt Pick, Rudolf Ehwald, Arthur Haseloff, Verlag Baensch, Magdeburg, 1905.
literature
- Manfred Welker: ornament in ornament. Studies on the use of ornaments in German spiral grids of the 17th and 18th centuries , Lang, 2000, p. 63 (nothing on the person).
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Markus Leo Mock: Art under Archbishop Ernst von Magdeburg (1464–1513) , Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistgeschichte, Berlin 2007, p. 106.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lüer, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, architect and director of the Kassel School of Applied Arts |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruchhausen-Vilsen , Hanover Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1962 |
| Place of death | Bad Hersfeld |