Full Name: Lücken, Gottfried von
Gender: male
Date Born: 1883
Date Died: 1976
Place Born: Wredenhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Place Died: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, and Classical
Overview
Specialist in ancient Greek art, especially sarcophagi. His 1930 book Entwicklung der Parthenonskulptur traced stylistic differences in the North frieze of the Parthenon sculptures not to different artists but to a steady process of stylistic development. Lücken’s academic career spanned the Weimar, Nazi and DDR eras as a Professor at the University of Rostock (1921-1971), but he emigrated from the DDR after retirement (at age 88) to Munich. His students included Lotte H. Eisner.
Selected Bibliography
Die Entwicklung der Parthenonskulptur, 1930.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 218-219.