Karl von Lützow (25 December 1832 – 22 April 1897) was a

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and

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Biography

He was born in

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. From 1851 to 1856 he studied

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and

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at the universities of

, where he became member of

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(fraternity), and

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, where he was a favored student of

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Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich He was associated in

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with

Wilhelm Lübke Wilhelm Lübke (17 January 1826 – 5 April 1893) was a German people, German art historian, born in Dortmund. He studied at University of Bonn, Bonn and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin; was a professor of architecture at the Berlin Bauak ...

in editin
''Denkmäler der Kunst''
He was appointed

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of art history at the

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in 1858, then edited in

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the ''Rezensionen und Mittheilungen über bildende Kunst''. In 1864 he became a

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at the

Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. History The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...

, where in 1866 he was also made librarian and director of the cabinet of engravings. In 1867 he was appointed professor of

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at the

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Works

His publications include: * ''Münchener Antiken'' (7 vols., 1861–69). * ''Die Meisterwerke der Kirchenbaukunst'' (2nd edition 1871). * ''Die Geschichte der kaiserlich-königlichen Akademie der bildenden Künste'' (1877). * ''Die vervielfältigende Kunst der Gegenwart'' (1886; et seq.). * ''Die Kunstschätze Italiens in geographisch-historischer Uebersicht geschildert'' (second edition, 1900). * Published in English
''Monuments of art, showing its development and progress from the earliest artistic attempts to the present period''
(with

); translation of ''Denkmäler der Kunst''. * ''Geschichte des deutschen Kupferstichs und Holzschnitts'' (History of German copperplate and wood engraving, 1891). He founded the ''Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst'' (Leipzig, 1866, et seq.), of which he was editor up to the time of his death.

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