Lutz Eckart

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Lutz Eckart (born December 1, 1919 in Oberstreu ; † 2000 in Pforzheim ) was a German academic painter and restorer .

Life

After attending primary school in Oberstreu and the Progymnasium in Bad Neustadt an der Saale , he graduated from high school in Munich in 1940 . His art studies, which he began in Munich , were interrupted from 1941 to 1945 by military service.

From 1945 to 1948 Eckart studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence , where he then worked as a lecturer for 18 years. His teachers were Primo Conti , Ugo Capocchini and Emanuele Cavalli.

In 1959 he founded the Florentine artist group “Gruppo Artisti Toscani” (Neorealists) together with Pier Luigi Malesci. In the same year he was awarded the gold medal for his "Simonetta" picture at the Great International Art Exhibition "The Masterpiece" in the Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome .

Due to his knowledge of the technical details of classical painting, he succeeded in finding out and recreating the color mixtures by Leonardo da Vinci , which had been secret for centuries, in long-term chemical experiments.

After the flood disaster in Florence in 1966, he returned to Germany, settled in Gerolzhofen after his marriage and had two sons.

Two important works that he preserved from decay as a restorer in Lower Franconia were the 450-year-old oldest fresco in the region "The Capture of Christ" on the south side of the Gerolzhöfer parish church and the 34 m² ceiling fresco of the Zehnthof chapel in Nordheim am Main , which he transplanted to the Münsterschwarzach Abbey .

Lutz Eckart died in 2000 at the age of 80 in Pforzheim and is also buried there.

literature

  • Biography (Italian and German), Fauno Verlag, Florence 1959.
  • Theo Pfister: Catalog raisonné by the Franconian painter Lutz Eckart . Majo Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1991. 48 pages, with numerous partly colored illustrations.

swell

  • Theo Pfister: Artistic work shapes his entire life . In: Haßfurter Tagblatt, December 1, 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gilta, Barbara: Christmas present for Gerolzhofen . In: Schweinfurter Tagblatt, December 4, 2004
  2. ↑ Artist database : Lutz Eckart http://www.kunst-und-kultur.de/index.php?Action=showArtist&aId=91
  3. ↑ a b Pfister, Theo: Master of the old colors. Painter Lutz Eckart 70 years. In: Mainpost, December 4, 1989
personal data
SURNAME Eckart, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German academic painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Top litter
DATE OF DEATH 2000
Place of death Gerolzhofen