Richard Luksch
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 .
Works
Publicly accessible works
- Bust of Georg Rebhann in front of the main building of the Vienna University of Technology ; 1903
- Bust of Franz Joseph I in the vestibule of the Wiener Postsparkasse ; 1905/06
- Figures of saints as crowning the tower of the Church of St. Leopold am Steinhof ( Penzing ) in Vienna (architect Otto Wagner ; 1906/07)
- Bust of Franz Joseph I, 1907, bronze, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
- Female faience figures for Palais Stoclet , Brussels (architect Josef Hoffmann ), Museum of Arts and Crafts ; 1905
- Relief figures for the new building of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts Architect: Fritz Schumacher ; 1911/12
- Memorial to the fallen of the First World War on the Nienstedten cemetery ; 1920
- Oak stake with the 7 virgins based on a poem by Hermann Claudius in the Jungfernstieg underground station; 1936
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
- Wilhelm Niemeyer: Sculptor Richard Luksch - Hamburg . In: German Art and Decoration , Vol. 29, Oct. 1911 – March 1912, pp. 122–131.
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 114.
- Kay Rump (editor), edited by Maike Bruhns: Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Neumünster 2005.
- Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg , Helmut R. Leppien: Richard Luksch, Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Hamburg 1979.
- Maria Pötzl-Malikova: Luksch, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 515 ( digitized version ).
- Matulla : Luksch Richard Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 367.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 114.
- ↑ see the photography Gertrud Falke and Ursula Falke. Austrian Theater Museum .
- ↑ The architect. Volume XIV, 1908.
- ↑ Illustrated in the magazine German Art and Decoration. Volume XVI, 1912, pp 274-275 ( Digitalisat the UB Heidelberg ).
- ^ Richard Luksch in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Richard Josef Luksch at knerger.de
- ↑ Rebhan monument in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Luksch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wilhelm Niemeyer: Sculptor Richard Luksch. In: German art and decoration. No. 29, 1911/12 (available online in the Internet Archive , with photos of works by Richard Luksch).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Luksch, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1872 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1936 |
Place of death | Hamburg |