Luke Herrmann
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Luke John Herrmann (born Lutz Johann Wolfgang Maximilian Hermann; 9 March 1932 – 9 September 2016) was a British art historian who was an expert on the art of J. M. W. Turner.
Early life
Herrmann was born on 9 March 1932 in Berlin into a German Jewish family. He was educated in England at Westminster School and at the University of Oxford."Luke Herrmann", The Times, 30 September 2016, p. 57.
Career
Herrmann briefly worked at the Illustrated London News. While there, he got to know editor Bruce Ingram, who was a prominent art collector and under whose guidance he began to collect English watercolour paintings in the 1950s. After Ingram's death in 1963, Herrmann inherited over 30 pictures from him, which he donated to a selection of British art galleries in 2002.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2018724.stm Art expert gifts collection to nation.] BBC News, 31 May 2002. Retrieved 3 October 2016. He later worked at the Ashmolean Museum.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160418065658/http://www.aah.org.uk/projects/oral-history/interviews/interview-with-luke-herrmann Interview with Luke Herrmann.] Association of Art Historians. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
Personal life
In 1965, Herrmann married Georgina ({{nee}} Thompson); she would go on to become a notable archaeologist of Western Asia.{{cite web |title=Herrmann, Georgina, (born 20 Oct. 1937), Reader in the Archaeology of Western Asia, University College London, 1993–2002, Visiting Hon. Research Professor, 2002–20, Emeritus Reader, since 2020 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U19951 |website=Who's Who 2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2 May 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2020}} Together they had two sons.
Selected publications
- Ruskin and Turner: A study of Ruskin as a collector of Turner, based on his gifts to the University of Oxford; incorporating a catalogue raisonné of the Turner drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. F.A. Praeger, New York, 1969.
- British landscape painting of the eighteenth century. Faber & Faber, London, 1973. {{ISBN|9780571093946}}
- Turner: Paintings, watercolours, prints, and drawings. Phaidon Press, London, 1975. {{ISBN|9780714816661}}
- Paul and Thomas Sandby. B.T. Batsford in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1986. {{ISBN|978-0713447880}}
- Turner prints: The engraved work of J.M.W. Turner. Phaidon Press, 1994. {{ISBN|978-0714825533}}
- Nineteenth century British painting. Giles de la Mare, London, 2000. {{ISBN|9781900357173}}
- J.M.W. Turner. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. (Very Interesting People series) {{ISBN|978-0199217557}}
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Category:British art historians
Category:Academics of the University of Leicester
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Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
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