About: Ludwig Pollak

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Ludwig Pollak (14 September 1868, Prague – 1943, Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austro-Czech classical archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and director of the Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica in Rome. He is perhaps best known for discovering in 1906 the missing right arm of Laocoön in the famous ancient Roman sculpture Laocoön and His Sons. Ludwig Pollak's story forms the basis of the German novel, Pollaks Arm by Hans Von Trotha (2021, and english translation by Elizabeth Lauffer, 2022,ISBN 978-1-954404-00-7)

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  • لودفيغ بولك (بالألمانية: Ludwig Pollak)‏ هو ‏ نمساوي، ولد في 14 سبتمبر 1868 في براغ في التشيك، وتوفي في 1943 في معسكر أوشفيتز بيركينو في بولندا. (ar)
  • Ludwig Pollak (geboren 14. September 1868 in Prag, Österreich-Ungarn; gestorben 1943 im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) war ein österreichisch-tschechoslowakischer Klassischer Archäologe und Kunsthändler, der in Rom lebte. (de)
  • Ludwig Pollak (14 September 1868, Prague – 1943, Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austro-Czech classical archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and director of the Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica in Rome. He is perhaps best known for discovering in 1906 the missing right arm of Laocoön in the famous ancient Roman sculpture Laocoön and His Sons. The rest of the statue had been discovered in 1506, with the arm as well as several other pieces, including the arms of the sons and parts of the snake, missing. The Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo had correctly suggested that the missing right arms were originally bent back over the shoulder; however, most others disagreed, opting for a reconstructed arm in an heroic extended fashion. This incorrectly reconstructed arm was added to the statue. In 1906, Pollak discovered a fragment of a marble arm in a builder‘s yard in Rome, close to the findspot of the rest of the statue. Noting a stylistic similarity to the Laocoön group he presented it to the Vatican Museums: it remained in their storerooms for half a century. In 1957 (after Pollak's murder at Auschwitz) the museum decided that this arm—bent, as Michelangelo had suggested—had originally belonged to this Laocoön, and replaced it. According to Paolo Liverani: "Remarkably, despite the lack of a critical section, the join between the torso and the arm was guaranteed by a drill hole on one piece which aligned perfectly with a corresponding hole on the other". Ludwig Pollak's story forms the basis of the German novel, Pollaks Arm by Hans Von Trotha (2021, and english translation by Elizabeth Lauffer, 2022,ISBN 978-1-954404-00-7) (en)
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  • January 2018 (en)
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  • On left, the statue as it appeared before 1957, with Laocoön's incorrectly reconstructed extended right arm. On right, the statue as it appears today, with the original arm found by Pollak added. (en)
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  • لودفيغ بولك (بالألمانية: Ludwig Pollak)‏ هو ‏ نمساوي، ولد في 14 سبتمبر 1868 في براغ في التشيك، وتوفي في 1943 في معسكر أوشفيتز بيركينو في بولندا. (ar)
  • Ludwig Pollak (geboren 14. September 1868 in Prag, Österreich-Ungarn; gestorben 1943 im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) war ein österreichisch-tschechoslowakischer Klassischer Archäologe und Kunsthändler, der in Rom lebte. (de)
  • Ludwig Pollak (14 September 1868, Prague – 1943, Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austro-Czech classical archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and director of the Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica in Rome. He is perhaps best known for discovering in 1906 the missing right arm of Laocoön in the famous ancient Roman sculpture Laocoön and His Sons. Ludwig Pollak's story forms the basis of the German novel, Pollaks Arm by Hans Von Trotha (2021, and english translation by Elizabeth Lauffer, 2022,ISBN 978-1-954404-00-7) (en)
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  • لودفيغ بولك (ar)
  • Ludwig Pollak (de)
  • Ludwig Pollak (en)
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