Antal Hekler (1 February 1882 – 3 March 1940) was a Hungarian/German classical archaeologist and

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. He was a member of the

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He wrote his doctoral thesis in

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in 1903 and then studied classical archaeology in

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under

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, where he wrote his second doctoral thesis, before he returned to his birthplace Budapest, where he first worked at the city's national museum and later held a chair for Christian archaeology and history of art at the

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of the

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. He went on dedicating himself to ancient art, but also to Hungarian art history. At Hekler's instigation the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts purchased 135 Greek, Roman and Italian sculptures from the Munich collection of Paul Arndt in 1908. Later another 650 terracotta sculptures were added from Arndt's collection.detailed presentation of the collection and its history in the following lecture (in German): Á.M. Nagy, Classica Hungarica - Die Antikensammlung des Museums der Bildenden Künste (Vortrag im Collegium Budapest, 30. Mai 2005) also onlin
here
/ref> Anna Zádor studied art history under Hekler at Pázmány Péter University (now called ELTE) starting 1922. After graduating in 1926, she continued working under Hekler until 1936, from which time she fell under persecution as a Jew.Anna Zádor
Nokert.hu, Retrieved 24 April 2017 Hekler’s book, ''Die Bildniskunst der Griechen & Römer'' (''Greek and Roman Portraits'') — published in

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and

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in 1912 — soon became a widespread standard work, also getting translated and published in other languages.

Publications

* ''Die Bildniskunst der Griechen & Römer'', Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1912 * ''A Klasszicizmus jelentősége és térfoglalása az ókori művészetben'', A budavári tudományos társaság, Budapest 1921 * ''Die Kunst des Phidias'', Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1924 * ''Die Sammlung antiker Skulpturen'', Krystall, Vienna 1929 (Die Budapester Sammlungen. Die Antiken in Budapest, Abt. 1) * ''Budapest als Kunststadt'', Lindner, Küssnacht 1933 * ''Die Universität Budapest'', Lindner, Basel 1935 * ''Ungarische Kunstgeschichte'', Mann, Berlin 1937 * ''Bildnisse berühmter Griechen'', Kupferberg, Berlin 1940 (3. edition, expanded by Helga von Heintze 1962)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hekler, Antal 1882 births 1940 deaths 20th-century Hungarian people Archaeologists from Budapest Hungarian art historians Hungarian expatriates in Germany Writers from Budapest Academic staff of Eötvös Loránd University

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