| Code | DS/UK/539 |
| Dates | 29/04/1855-26/03/1917 |
| Person Name | Harck; Ludwig Friedrich von (29/04/1855-26/03/1917); Dr.phil. |
| Surname | Harck |
| Forenames | Ludwig Friedrich von |
| Title | Dr.phil. |
| Activity | Art historian, collector, art lover and patron. |
| Relationships | Son of the Leipzig merchant, alderman and collector Julius Harck. Married Helene Schnitzler (1887). |
| History | Started an apprenticeship with a Hamburg overseas merchant; briefly worked for the Berlin Bank Frege & Co.; started an internship at the Berlin Print Room (1877); studied art history in Vienna, Munich and Zurich; dissertation in Zurich. Member of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, the Königliche Gesellschaft in Berlin, as well as Gesellschaft Harmonie (Leipzig) and the Gesellschaft der Freunde des Kunstgewerbemuseums zu Leipzig. |
| Source | Sven Kuhrau: Der Kunstsammler im Kaiserreich. Kunst und Repräsentation in der Berliner Privatsammlerkultur, Ludwig, Kiel 2005. 'Fritz von Harck', URL: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_von_Harck> [accessed 30/11/2010]. |
Show related catalogue records.