Wilhelm Lübke

Wilhelm Lübke (17 January 1826 – 5 April 1893) was a German art historian, born in Dortmund.

Wilhelm Lübke
Wilhelm Lübke
Born17 January 1826
Dortmund, Germany
Died5 April 1893
OccupationGerman art historian
The Spanish Steps in Rome around 1900. Book illustration from Wilhelm Lübke's Grundriß der Kunstgeschicte (14th edition, with contributions from Max Semrau.) Paul Neff Verlag. Berlin 1908.

He studied at Bonn and Berlin; was a professor of architecture at the Berlin Bauakademie (1857–61) and a professor of art history at the Polytechnic in Zurich (1861–66), the Polytechnic in Stuttgart (1866–85), and the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe (1885–93).[1] Previous to his work in art, he gave instruction in vocal and pianoforte music.

Lübke was one of the pioneer writers on art history in Germany. His works were for their day both scholarly and appreciative, and correlate the epochs of art history with the great historical periods.

Selective biography

Lübke wrote, in a comprehensive and readable style, numerous valuable works, including:

  • Vorschule vor Geschichte der Kirchenbaukunst des Mittelalters (1852; sixth edition, under different title, 1873; English translation, Ecclesiastical Art in Germany during the Middle Ages, Edinburgh, 1870).
  • Mittelalterliche Kunst in Westfalen, 1853 ("Medieval art in Westphalia").
  • Geschichte der Architektur, (Leipzig, 1855; sixth edition, 1884–86).
  • Grundriß der Kunstgeschichte (1860; thirteenth edition, 1899–1907; English translation, under the title Outlines of the History of Art by Clarence Cook, 1878, and reëdited by Russell Sturgis, New York, 1904).
  • Geschichte der Renaissance Frankreichs, 1868 ("History of the Renaissance in France").
  • Geschichte der deutschen Renaissance, 1873 ("History of the German Renaissance").
  • Geschichte der Plastik (third edition, 1880; translation by F.E. Bunnet under the title History of Sculpture, London, 1878).
  • Geschichte der deutschen Kunst von den frühesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart, 1890 ("History of German art: from the earliest times to the present").
  • Lebenserinnerungen, 1891 ("Recollections").

With Karl von Lützow, he published Denkmäler der Kunst, later translated into English and issued as Monuments of art, showing its development and progress from the earliest artistic attempts to the present period.

References
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Lübke, Wilhelm" . Encyclopedia Americana.
  1. ADB:Lübke, Wilhelm In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, S. 106–111.
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