Jochen Luckhardt

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Jochen Luckhardt (2017)

Jochen Luckhardt (* 1952 in Gevelsberg ) is a German art historian and was director of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig from 1990 to the end of February 2019 .

Life

From 1972 to 1978 Luckhardt studied art history and history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . After receiving his doctorate on The Dominican Church of Lambert Friedrich Corfey in Münster. Studying the history, form and function of a religious order "around 1700" he worked for a few years as a research assistant before he took over the management of the ancient painting department in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History in 1983 . In 1990 he was finally appointed director at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, which he held until the end of February 2019.

Luckhardt has held various teaching positions since 1992, for example at the Institutes for Art History at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale) , where he has been an honorary professor since 2001 . He is also a member of several foundations and associations, for example he is on the advisory board of the Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein and on the board of trustees of the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation . In 1995 Luckhardt and Franz Niehoff published three exhibition volumes on the 800th anniversary of the death of Duke Heinrich the Lion .

Due to his services in the field of culture, Luckhardt was awarded the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the State of Lower Saxony in July 2019 . The Minister of Science and Culture, Björn Thümler , justified this by referring to his implementation of numerous research projects, his work for the renovation, expansion and repositioning of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, which was reopened in 2016, and the inventory catalogs for almost all of them Collection complexes of the museum that have been made available to science and the public.

Fonts (selection)

  • Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig: The collection. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-06122-3 .
  • with Franz Niehoff: Heinrich the Lion and his time. Rule and representation of the Guelphs 1125–1235. Catalog of the exhibition Braunschweig 1995. 3 Bde. Hirmer, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7774-6900-9 .
  • with Nils Büttner : The war as a person. Duke Christian the Elder J. von Braunschweig in the portrait of Paulus Moreelse . Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-922279-47-3 (exhibition catalog).
  • The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum and its collections. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7774-2295-9 .
  • with Regine Marth: curls and rulers. Wigs as a status symbol and fashion accessory. Exhibition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, May 10 to July 30, 2006. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-7338-0344-2 .
  • with Gisela Bungarten: Welfenschätze. Collected, sold, preserved by museums. Exhibition catalog Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Michael Imhof Verlag, Braunschweig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-262-8 .
  • “… One of the greatest monarchs in Europe ?!” - New research on Duke Anton Ulrich. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7319-0055-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Luckhardt, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Gevelsberg