Lukas Nickel
Lukas Nickel (* 1964 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German art historian , sinologist and university professor .
Life
Lukas Nickel studied modern and classical Sinology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , oriental archeology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and East Asian art history at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . He did his doctorate in Heidelberg on the graves of the Han period in Luoyang . From 1999 to 2001 he was a curator at the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne .
After substituting professorships at the University of Zurich , University of London and Heidelberg, Nickel moved to the University of Vienna in September 2016 .
His main research interests are in early and medieval Chinese art , Buddhist art , the interactions of Asian cultures along the Silk Road and the contact between the Chinese and the Hellenistic world. Furthermore, Nickel deals intensively with the founder of the Chinese Empire, Qin Shihuangdi .
Fonts (selection)
- Tong Peihua 佟 佩华 , Lukas Nickel, Li Zhengguang 李振光 (ed.), The Temple of the White Dragon in Xiaoshijiazhuang, Linqu county, Shandong province 山东 临朐 小时 家 庄白龙 寺 , Beijing, Wenwu press 2016.
- Lukas Nickel, Graves of the Han period in Luoyang , Munich East Asian Studies, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag 2011.
- Lukas Nickel (ed.), Return of the Buddha - the Qingzhou Discoveries . London, Royal Academy of Arts 2002, and Washington DC, Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 2004.
- Lukas Nickel (ed.), The Return of the Buddha. 6th Century Chinese Sculptures - The Qingzhou Temple Find . Zurich, Museum Rietberg 2001; English edition: The Return of the Buddha - Buddhist Sculptures of the 6th Century from Qingzhou, Shandong . Zurich, Museum Rietberg 2002.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lukas Nickel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personnel page at the University of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.Sin. Lukas Nickel. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Nickel Lukas research focus. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
- ^ Nickel Lukas publications. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
Former chair (“Art History II”): Rudolf Eitelberger (1852–1885) | Alois Riegl (1897–1905) | Max Dvořák (1909–1921) | Julius von Schlosser (from 1922) | Hans Sedlmayr (from 1936) | Karl M. Swoboda (from 1946) | Otto Pächt (from 1963) | Hermann Fillitz (from 1974) | Hellmut Lorenz (from 1997) | Sebastian Schütze (from 2009)
Later chair (“Art History I”): Moritz Thausing (1873–1884) | Franz Wickhoff (1885–1909) | Josef Strzygowski (1909–1933) | Otto Demus (from 1963) | Günther Heinz (from 1976) | Friedrich Teja Bach (from 1994) | Sebastian Egenhofer (from 2016)
Further chairs and university professors: Otto Benesch (from 1948) | Fritz Novotny (from 1948) | Renate Wagner-Rieger (from 1964) | Gerhard Schmidt (from 1964) | Helmut Buschhausen (from 1975) | Artur Rosenauer (from 1976) | Deborah Klimburg-Salter (from 1996) | Michael Viktor Schwarz (from 1998) | Lioba Theis (from 2005) | Raphael Rosenberg (from 2009) | Julia Gelshorn (2010–2011) | Sebastian Egenhofer (2012–2013) | Markus Ritter (from 2012) | Noit Banai (from 2014) | Lukas Nickel (from 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nickel, Lukas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |