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Alscher, Ludger

    Full Name: Alscher, Ludger

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1916

    Date Died: 1985

    Place Born: Munster, Lower Saxony, Germany

    Place Died: Berlin, Germany

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, and Classical


    Overview

    Specialist in classical Greek and Roman art. Alscher studied under Ernst Buschor at Munich, and was charged with reorganizing the Archaeological Institute at the University of Jena after World War II in 1945. In 1951, he moved to a professorship at the Humboldt University in (East) Berlin, where he was named an ordentliche (full) Professor in 1953. Published a four-volume history of the development of Greek sculpture, that was influenced by his training in the analysis of forms.


    Selected Bibliography

    Götter vor Gericht: das Fälschungsproblem des Bostoner “Throns” die klassisch-griechische Kunst und die Archäologen. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1963; Griechische Plastik. 4 vols. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1954-1963.


    Sources

    Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 319-320.




    Citation

    "Alscher, Ludger." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/alscherl/.


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