Julius Lessing

Julius Lessing ( born September 20, 1843 in Stettin, † 14 March 1908 in Berlin) was a German art historian and the first director of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts.

Life

Julius Lessing studied at the universities of Berlin and Bonn Classical philology and archeology. After receiving his PhD in Bonn in 1866, he undertook extended trips and taught from 1870 history of decorative arts at the Berlin Academy of Architecture and at the Commercial Academy as a professor. Even after the two academies Institute of Technology in 1879, he continued his teaching until 1894.

Julius Lessing took part in the 1867 founded association Deutsches Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin, who ran a teaching institute along with two collection rooms in rented by the club former Gropius 's diorama at the corner of George Street / Stall Street, now the University road since January 12, 1868. He was the acting head of the construction of the collection and was responsible for the 1872 exhibition of art and crafts works from the art collection, various palaces of the royal family and private property under the patronage of the Crown Prince Friedrich in Berlin Arsenal. The success of the exhibition was led to the creation of an actual Arts and Crafts Museum as a separate department in addition to the educational institution. Julius Lessing was the first director of the newly founded museum, which he headed until his death in 1908.

In his many years of management time in 1880 falls the integration of the initially private art and crafts museum in the Royal Museum and in 1881 the relocation of the collections to the new building of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the Prinz- Albrecht-Strasse 7 (today Niederkirchnerstraße ) according to the plans of the architects Martin Gropius and Heino forging. Through remittances from royal property and targeted acquisitions, the collection gained international importance under his leadership. Important extensions were about 1875 the transfer of 7,000 objects from the Kunstkammer, previously stored at the New Museum, the purchase glass collection Guastella 1872 or the Council of silver city of Lüneburg in 1874.

The aim of the association Deutsches Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin, the local art industry make it accessible to the expedients of art and science, included not only the structure of the collection and the publication of art and crafts exemplary role models. So wrote Julius Lessing in 1888 over twenty books in the series models booklets from the Royal. Museum of Decorative Arts.

Julius Lessing is located in the Jewish Cemetery Beautifully Allee buried.

Works

  • Julius Lessing: Decorative Arts at the World Exhibition in Vienna. E. Wasmuth Berlin 1874
  • Julius Lessing: Ancient Oriental rug Pattern: After images and originals of the XV. - XVI. Century drawn by Julius Lessing, E. Wasmuth, Berlin 1877 (new edition: Wasmuth 1926)
  • Julius Lessing: Reports of the Paris World Exhibition in 1878. E. Wasmuth Berlin 1878
  • Julius Lessing: The silver work of Anthony Eisenhoit from Warburg; Light Print by Albert Frisch, 1879 Berlin
  • Models - books from the Royal. Museum of Decorative Arts. Wasmuth, Berlin 1888-1905 1: Frame 1 Delivery: Italy XV - XVI. Century.
  • 2: Frame Delivery 2: Italy and Germany XVI. Century.
  • 3: Frame delivery 3: XVII. Century.
  • 4: Frame Delivery 4: In early XVIII. Century.
  • 7: Candelabra: XVI -XVII. Century.
  • 10: Skylight lattice wrought iron and Related XVI -XVIII. Century.
  • 11: Persian - Turkish Faience plate.
  • 12: Italian 15 - chests 16th Century.
  • 13: Oriental carpets.
  • 15: doors.
  • 18/19: Berlin porcelain of XVIII. Century.
  • 20: Frame delivery 5: XVIII. Century.
  • 22: Bronzes of the 18th Century
  • 25: The tapestry of the life of the patriarch Jacob.
  • 26: implements made ​​of precious metals: XVIII. Century 26
  • 29: Chinese bronze vessels.
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