Robert Suckale (30 October 1943 – 13 February 2020[1]) was a German art historian, medievalist and professor at Technische Universität Berlin.
Suckale completed his studies in art history with the subsidiary subjects classical archaeology and Latin philology of the Middle Ages in Berlin, Bonn, Paris and Munich in 1970 with a doctorate under Wolfgang Braunfels [de] at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
In 1976, he was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on the Klosterbibliothek Metten [de] manuscripts[2] from the years 1414/1415 Habilitated.
In 1990, Suckale was appointed to the Department of Art History at Technische Universität Berlin; in 2004, he had to retire early due to illness, but continued to be academically active.
This approach is based on the belief that stylistic forms are not unfounded, but can be traced back to historical, economic, technical, religious or humanistic backgrounds..[3]Suckale's work was distinguished by its international horizon, which included not only the German-speaking countries, but also France, Italy and the countries of East Central Europe.