1. Alfred Lichtwark was a German art historian, museum curator, and art educator in Hamburg.
16 Facts About Alfred Lichtwark
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Alfred Lichtwark is one of the founders of museum education and the art education movement.
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Alfred Lichtwark was the son of Herr Johann Karl Ernst Lichtwark, a minor lord who owned the Reitbrook Mill.
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Alfred Lichtwark, who attended the civil school, proved to be very talented and versatile, helping students after school as an assistant teacher.
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Alfred Lichtwark was very disenchanted with the educational system that existed at that time in Imperial Germany, which led him to the idea of a new kind of school or pedagogy.
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Alfred Lichtwark became the first director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg on December 3,1886, after which he systematically developed its collection.
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Alfred Lichtwark collected Hamburg's medieval art on the one hand, and sought and acquired works of German romantics on the other hand.
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Alfred Lichtwark collected the works of contemporary artists of the late 19th century such as Lovis Corinth, Wilhelm Leibl, Adolph Menzel, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard.
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Alfred Lichtwark initiated the establishment of the Hamburgischer Kunstlerklub and awarded contracts to painters such as Gotthardt Kuehl and Wilhelm Trubner.
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Alfred Lichtwark brought back the Grabow Altarpiece of Master Bertram, which used to be the altar of St Peter's Church in Hamburg, from the church in Grabow back to Hamburg.
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Alfred Lichtwark criticized the class divisions in German society and other parts of Europe during that time.
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Alfred Lichtwark led exercises on the contemplation of works of art in which he systematically discussed his museum's artworks with students.
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Alfred Lichtwark published the resultant findings in several papers and books.
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Alfred Lichtwark is thus one of the founders of the field of museum education.
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Alfred Lichtwark remained the director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg until his death in 1914.
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Alfred Lichtwark died of stomach cancer and was buried in the Old Hamburg Memorial Cemetery, part of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.