Ludwig von Bürkel (art historian)

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Ludwig von Bürkel , called Luigi von Bürkel (born July 5, 1877 in Munich , † June 11, 1946 in Benediktbeuern ) was a German art historian.

Life

Bürkel's parents were the ministerial director Ludwig von Bürkel and his wife Maria geb. Rosipal. His father was the court secretary of King Ludwig II of Bavaria between 1877 and 1884 .

After graduating from the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich , he began to study history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . On July 18, 1896, he became active in his father's Corps Franconia Munich . At the same time he served in 1896/97 as a one-year volunteer with the Munich field artillery in the Bavarian Army . He was reciprocated on February 19, 1898 and inactivated on January 26, 1900 . After a few semesters at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Innsbruck , he returned to Munich, where he in 1903 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. Until the First World War he stayed alternately in Florence and Munich and devoted himself to art historical work. He founded and directed the Munich Yearbook of Fine Arts and the Munich Graphic Society . At the beginning of the war he moved to the western front with an ammunition column . In 1917 he was secretary of the regional studies commission in Macedonia . At the end of 1917 he became a "plastic officer" in Italy with the 14th Army . Most recently he was head of agriculture at a German command post in Udine . He received the Iron Cross 2nd class and was dismissed as a lieutenant. After the war he worked again as an art historian and art dealer. Later he worked for the radio , the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . He was a travel companion in Italy, France and other countries. During the Second World War he completed a monograph on his grandfather, the painter Heinrich Bürkel , whose works were exhibited in Munich in 1941. In the early 1940s, Ludwig von Bürkel moved to Kochel am See . He died shortly before his 69th birthday in the hospital in Benediktbeuern and was buried in Kochel. He left behind his wife Hahn-Nicolai, whom he had only married in 1943.

Works

  • Francesco Furini . Vienna and Leipzig 1908.
  • Pictures from the Macedonian theater of war . On behalf of a general command ed. from the Munich Graphic Society, 1917.
  • With the 14th Army to Italy . On behalf of the Army High Command ed. from the Munich Graphic Society, 1917.
  • Heinrich Bürkel 1802-1869. A painter's life from the Biedermeier period. Bruckmann Verlag , Munich, 1940.
  • From the cattle market to Leopoldstrasse. Memories of the youth from King Ludwig II's Munich. Ed. From the estate. by Marie Romeis. Pflaum, Munich, 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106/636
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The pictures of the south German broad pfennings .
  3. ↑ a b List of members of the Corps Franconia Munich, p. 407f.
personal data
SURNAME Bürkel, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buerkel, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1946
Place of death Benediktbeuern