Luke Herrmann

Luke 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.

Luke Herrmann

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.[1]

Career

Herrmann worked at the Illustrated London News where he got to know the 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.[2] He later worked at the Ashmolean Museum.[3]

Death and legacy

Herrmann died on 9 September 2016.[1]

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 raisonnĂ© 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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References
  1. "Luke Herrmann", The Times, 30 September 2016, p. 57.
  2. Art expert gifts collection to nation. BBC News, 31 May 2002. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  3. Interview with Luke Herrmann. Association of Art Historians. Retrieved 3 October 2016.


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