page_title: Karl von Lützow
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Karl von Lützow / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Grab von Carl von Lützow auf dem Zentralfriedhof Wien
context_page_description: Karl von Lützow was a German art historian and critic.
context_section_description: He was born in Göttingen. From 1851 to 1856 he studied philology and archæology at the universities of Göttingen, where he became member of Burschenschaft (fraternity) Hannovera, and Munich, where he was a favored student of Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch. He was associated in Berlin with Wilhelm Lübke in editing Denkmäler der Kunst.
  He was appointed docent of art history at the University of Munich in 1858, then edited in Vienna the Rezensionen und Mittheilungen über bildende Kunst. In 1864 he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where in 1866 he was also made librarian and director of the cabinet of engravings. In 1867 he was appointed professor of architectural history at the Technische Hochschule.
caption: Grave relief of Karl von Lützow at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.
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