Ludwig Puttrich
Ludwig Puttrich (born April 30, 1783 in Dresden , † September 2, 1856 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer who gained importance as an art historian .
Life
Puttrich was born the son of a civil servant. In 1801 he began to study law in Leipzig . From 1807 he worked here as senior court consistorial advocate .
From 1832 to 1852 he worked on his main work “Monuments of the Architecture of the Middle Ages in Saxony”. In 1828 Puttrich was the founder of the so-called Saturday Society, which in 1840 joined the Kunstverein, which had existed since 1837, as the Leipzig Art Association. He was a collector and patron who exchanged letters with Caspar David Friedrich and worked with other art historians of his time. Carl Peter Lepsius , the father of the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, contributed to the second volume of his work . When Rudolf Wiegmann proposed the formation of an association covering the whole of Germany for the history of medieval architecture in 1842 , Puttrich included Sulpiz Boisserée , Ludwig Hoffstadt , Heinrich Hübsch , Georg Moller , Johann Claudius von Lassaulx , Ferdinand von Quast , Christian Wilhelm Schmidt , Karl Schnaase and Friedrich August Stüler among the supporters of the idea. Puttrich's greatest merit is his commitment to Duke Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau for the restoration of the profane and decayed collegiate church of St. Cyriakus in Gernrode .
Publications
- Monuments of the architecture of the Middle Ages in Saxony:
- 1st Department, Leipzig 1836–1843: The Kingdom of Saxony, the Grand Duchy and the Duchies of the Ernestine Line, along with Anhalt, Schwarzburg, Reuss
- 1st volume
- The castle church in Wechselburg
- The golden gate to Freiberg
- The Duke of Anhalt 's Lands
- The Fürstlich Schwarzburg lands
- 2nd volume
- Meissen Castle and Cathedral
- The Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg
- The Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
- The Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
- The Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen-Hildburghausen
- The Reuss Princely House (together with Dresden , Leipzig , Altenzelle , Zwickau , Oybin )
- 2nd department: The royal Prussian province of Saxony , Leipzig 1850
- 1st volume
- Merseburg
- Memleben Monastery , Schraplau and Treben
- School gate
- The city church of Freiburg ad Unstrut
- Naumburg an der Saale , its cathedral
- 2nd volume
- Eisleben , Sangerhausen , Querfurt , Konradsburg
- Halle , Petersberg , Landsberg
- Jüterbog , Zinna , Treuenbrietzen
- Erfurt , its cathedral
- The Counts of Stolberg 's possessions in the Harz Mountains
- The royal Prussian Lausitz
- Mühlhausen , Nordhausen , Heiligenstadt
- Wittenberg , Zeitz , Mühlberg
- Systematic presentation of the development of architecture in the Upper Saxon countries , final text and volume 5 of: Monuments of the architecture of the Middle Ages in Saxony , Leipzig 1852
- Wartburg Castle and Eisenach . In: Medieval Buildings in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar Eisenach , pp. 3–16.
literature
- Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Puttrich, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 779 f.
- Albert Giesecke: Ludwig Puttrich, the discoverer of medieval Upper Saxon architecture, in memory. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter, Heft 7, 1958, pp. 407-411.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puttrich, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1856 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |