Julius Lange (art historian)

Julius Henrik Lange ( born June 19, 1838 in Vordingborg, South Zealand, † August 19, 1896 in Copenhagen) was a Danish art historian and esthetician. He referred in 1858, the University of Copenhagen, accompanied a few years later a rich gentleman on a trip to Italy and then turned exclusively to art history. Long was appointed as a lecturer in art history in 1870 at the Academy and in 1871 to the University of Copenhagen. In 1877 he became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences.

Of his art of antiquity and of modern times devoted to writings are the most outstanding: Michelangelo og Marmoret (1871 ); Om Kunstværdi ( " About the artistic value ", 1876) and Prior Art og Udlandets ( "Our art and that of other countries," 1879), in which he stated the objectives of the Danish art; Det ioniske capital was Oprindelse above Forhistorie (1877 ); Guder og mennesker hos Homer ( " Gods and men in Homer ", 1881); Sergel above Thorvaldsen (1885 ); Thorwaldsen's portrayal of people ( German by M. Mann, Berlin 1894).

After his death appeared: The representation of the people in the older Greek art ( German by M. Mann, Strasbourg 1899); The human figure in the history of art from the second golden age of Greek art until the 19th century ( German, das. 1903); Letters (edited by Köble; German by I. Anders, das. 1903); Udvalgte Skrifter (Copenhagen 1904). See Brandes, Julius Long, Breve fra hans ungdom (1898; German by A. Forster, Leipzig 1899).

His brother was the doctor Carl Lange ( 1834-1900 ).

Source: Meyers encyclopedia, 6th edition, 1906.