Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger

Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger (born March 4, 1850 in Mainz , † July 20, 1922 there ) was a German prehistoric , museum director and painter . He was the son of the Mainz prehistorian, painter and museum founder Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder .

Life

Lindenschmit worked for the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, which his father co-founded. From 1893 to 1901 Lindenschmit the Younger was director ( conservator ) there and from 1902 to 1912 the second director.

Lindenschmit was editor of the 4th volume of the handbook antiquities of our pagan prehistory (Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum), the first three volumes of which his father had edited, as well as the commemorative publication to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz (Mainz 1902) .

In connection with the first significant Paleolithic (Palaeolithic) small works of art in Central Europe, Lindenschmit the Younger has made a name for himself alongside his father. So he exposed two forgeries of Ice Age art, which his father published in an important article (1876). The forgeries, the drawings of a bear and a seated fox, came from the Kesslerloch near Thayngen (tinkerers are said to have temporarily found shelter here) in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen near the German border.

Works

• Ludwig Lindenschmit son (ed.): The Roman-Germanic Central Museum in pictorial representations from its collections . Verlag Victor von Zabern, Mainz 1889, 57 sheets, 51 plates [important inventory].
• Contributions to the history of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz . 1 cover picture, 2 plates u. 4 Fig. In: Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1902, pp. 1-72.
• Memories as border decorations for Ludwig Lindenschmit's character image and the history of his life's work . 1 plate u. 4 Fig. In: Festschrift to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz . Kommissionsverlag L. Wilckens, Mainz 1927, pp. 5-51.

literature

• [Article] In: Mainzer Zeitschrift . Volume 17/19, 1921/24.
• [Article] Lindenschmit the Younger, Ludwig . In: Jan Filip : Encyclopaedic Handbook on Pre- and Early History of Europe, Vol. 2: LZ . Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Prague, Prague 19, p. 715.
• Herbert Kühn : History of Prehistory . Walter de Gruyter, 1976, ISBN 3-11-005918-5
• The artist families Lindenschmit. Paintings, graphics, documents . Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz 1983