Heinrich Lützeler

Heinrich Lützeler ( born January 27, 1902 in Bonn, † June 13, 1988 ibid ) was a philosopher, art historians, literary scholars, the leaders of several institutions and dean of the University of Bonn. He was extremely popular through regular lectures for non- academic listeners and popular works on the Rhenish languages ​​like about the Rhenish humor.

Life and work

Heinrich Lützeler - son of Bonn porcelain painter - was a Christian education as a child worker in the upper middle of Bonn. He studied from 1921 philosophy, art history and literature at the University of Bonn. In 1924 he finished his studies with a dissertation on the topic forms of art knowledge in philosophy, although he had actually pursued a degree in art history. In the following years he worked on his habilitation and earned his livelihood, among others, with lectures and theater reviews. In 1930 he finally completed his habilitation work with basic styles of art and took a lectureship in philosophy in Bonn. In 1940 he was occupied by the Nazi authorities with a ban on teaching. His farewell lecture at the University of Bonn with the title "From the profession of university teacher " was printed by students and friends, under the hand and is known far beyond the environment of the universities of Bonn and beyond. In 1942 he was banned from writing and speaking ban for the entire Greater German Reich and was partially under observation. Lützelers writings published since 1942 in Herder in Freiburg in translations into Spanish, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish and were intended only for distribution abroad.

A few weeks after the war ended in 1945, he began to participate in the reconstruction of the University of Bonn. He entered the building and land Commission, to which he belonged until his retirement and was appointed quickly promoted to full professor of art history. He took over in 1946, the leadership of the Institute of Art History. In 1954 he became chairman of the Building and Land Commission. 1954-1955, he was also Dean of the Faculty of Arts. In 1967 he had founded with his own money and donations, the " Research Centre of Oriental Art History " and directed until 1985. 1967-1968 he was again Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Despite his retirement in 1970 Lützeler remained active in research and teaching. In 1974 his " Research Centre of Oriental art history " in an independent institute seminar was converted, whose leadership he held until 1985.

Heinrich Lützelers grave is located on the South Cemetery Bonner.

Local Political Involvement

Lützeler was an attentive observer of the local political scene in Bonn and repeatedly intervened in disputes in which it came to urban development. He was among the most vocal critics of the design of the station area. On January 11, 1977, the General-Anzeiger published a discussion paper from him. In it, he explores the ideas of the responsible for the planning architect Friedrich Spengelin.

Position

Heinrich Lützeler had dealt since the mid- twenties of the 20th century with the phenomenon of Christian art and here about published in the Catholic monthly magazine Highlands. Contemporary studies indicate Lützeler as a major representative of the movement renouveau catholique in Germany.

Honors

Publications

• Experience of art and art history. Systematic and evolutionary representation and documentation of dealing with the visual arts. 3 volumes ( Orbis Academicus I/15 '1 -3 ). Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1975. ISBN 3-495-47309-2
• Guide to Art, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1938
• World history of art. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959
• Philosophy of Cologne humor, Peters, Hanau / Main, 1954
• Cologne humor on the road, essay in " Special Issue Cologne " Atlantis ( countries, people, travel), xxvii. Jg, Issue 5, May 1955 pp I - XVI and S. 189-242
• Kölsches milieu. With Mita Savelsberg. Rheinau, Cologne, o.J. ( 1980 )