Alfred Lichtwark
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Alfred Lichtwark was a German art historian, museum curator, and art educator in Hamburg. He is one of the founders of museum education and the art education movement.
Alfred Lichtwark in 1899. Photograph by Rudolf Dührkoop.
Front Dike 9, Hamburg-Reitbrook, Lichtwark's birthplace.
A portrait of Alfred Lichtwark, painted by Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalckreuth, 1912.
Hamburger Kunsthalle
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The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. It consists of three connected buildings, dating fro
Alfred Lichtwark
…to the idea of a new kind of school or pedagogy. It is unclear why Lichtwark was asked in 1886 whether he wanted to take over as the director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg (an art museum in Hamburg), which was previously managed only by a member of the Senate. He became the first director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg on…
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Master Bertram: Grabow Altarpiece (1383)
C. D. Friedrich: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)
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