Richard Luksch

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Richard Lucksch
St. Leopold figure above the entrance to the Steinhof Church in Vienna
Figure of the preacher Severin above the entrance to the Steinhof Church in Vienna
Work by Richard Luksch on the building of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts

Richard Luksch (born January 23, 1872 in Vienna , † April 21, 1936 in Hamburg ) was a sculptor , ceramist and artisan .

Life

Richard Luksch's education began with attending secondary school. After completing his one-year voluntary service , he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He attended the Kur drawing school for a year as a private student, then the Hackel drawing school (at the Munich Academy) for two years and the Stöcker painting school for another two years; in addition, he learned from the sculptor Gester. His main work was The Wanderer , a life-size figure made of oak and shell limestone. Luksch exhibited repeatedly in the Vienna Secession and in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1902 he had his studio in the 3rd district of Vienna , Hainburgerstrasse 24.

Richard Luksch was his first marriage to the Russian painter and sculptor Elena Luksch-Makowsky , and his second marriage from 1923 to the expressive dancer Ursula Falke . In 1934 he was prematurely dismissed from civil service because of his involvement in the Hamburg artists' festival "Krawall im All", which was critical of the Nazi regime.

Richard Luksch belonged to the group around Gustav Klimt with whom he left the Vienna Secession in 1905 . The famous Viennese architect Otto Wagner calls Luksch's departure from Vienna in the same sentence with Czeschka and Olbrich “a great disadvantage for art and a great economic disadvantage for Austria”. He created works for the Wiener Werkstätte (equipment Sanatorium Purkersdorf , Palais Stoclet ) and Otto Wagner (including statues for the church at Steinhof ).

For the Lessing Society in 1911, Luksch modeled the stage masks of Lucifer, Beelzebub and the seven deadly sins for the performance of The tragic history of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe : envy , avarice , pride , anger , gluttony , indolence and lust . The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg unfortunately only shows four of the masks in "naked" form, namely envy, avarice, arrogance and lust.

Luksch was appointed to the Hamburg School of Applied Arts in April 1907. There he was a professor until 1936, first at its old location on Steintorplatz, then in the new building on Lerchenfeld, today's Hamburg University of Fine Arts , and he was also a member of the German Association of Artists .

In his artistic work he remained connected to Art Nouveau throughout his life , but his later style was "geometrically sharpened".

Luksch's students include Niko Wöhlk , Gustav Weidanz , Hans Martin Ruwoldt , Karl Opfermann , Will Lammert , Alwin Blaue , Hildegard Domizlaff , Karl Allöder , Karl August Ohrt and Hans Peter Feddersen , Konrad Adolf Lattner . Richard Luksch is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Gravestone for Detlev von Liliencron in the cemetery in Hamburg-Rahlstedt by Richard Luksch
Gravestone of Richard Luksch in the Ohlsdorf cemetery (AC7)

Works

Publicly accessible works

Medal oeuvre

  • 1922 bronze casting, 104 mm: Hermann Kümmell ( Korbach 1852–1937 Hamburg), professor of medicine, full professor of surgery at Hamburg University. Literature: Salaschek 1062.
  • 1918 bronze casting, 98 mm: Theodor Rumpel , professor of medicine, builder of the general hospital in Barmbek . Literature: Salaschek 1063.
  • 1925 Bronze casting, 100 mm: Mayor Stolten Medal after Otto Stolten (1853–1928), Mayor of Hamburg. Literature: Salaschek 1064.
  • For further works (Miscellanea) see: Sunhild Salaschek: Medals and Plaques in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . Hamburg 1980, page 255, no. 1058 to 1061.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 114.
  2. see the photography Gertrud Falke and Ursula Falke. Austrian Theater Museum .
  3. The architect. Volume XIV, 1908.
  4. Illustrated in the magazine German Art and Decoration. Volume XVI, 1912, pp 274-275 ( Digitalisat the UB Heidelberg ).
  5. ^ Richard Luksch in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  6. Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kuenstlerbund.de, accessed on November 5, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  7. ^ Richard Josef Luksch at knerger.de
  8. Rebhan monument in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna

Web links

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