August Leu (painter, 1818)
August Wilhelm Leu , also August Leu the Elder (born March 24, 1818 in Münster , † July 20, 1897 in Seelisberg , Canton Uri ), was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Leu devoted himself to landscape painting in Düsseldorf from 1840 to 1845 , primarily under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , and toured Norway in 1843 and 1847 , later to Switzerland , Tyrol, Upper Bavaria, Styria and Italy. He lived in Brussels for a short time, but returned to Düsseldorf. At the end of the 1850s, Leu was the owner of house number 28 in Jägerhofstrasse . In 1882 August Leu went to Berlin .
His landscapes are characterized by a great, romantic view of the alpine nature, masterful presentations, bright colors and well-calculated lighting effects. Of his numerous pictures, most of which he executed on a larger scale, the following should be emphasized:
- Norwegian waterfall with fir forest (1848, museum in Oslo )
- Sognefjord at noon (museum in Bremen)
- Game near Berchtesgaden (Museum in Stuttgart)
- Norwegian plateau (museum in Königsberg)
- Waterfall (Museum in Vienna)
- The Watzmann
- The Dachstein
- The Obersee
- Sunset on the Sorrento coast
- Oeschinensee near Kandersteg in the canton of Bern (1876, National Gallery of Berlin)
- Lake Maggiore (1879)
- The castle of Queen Johanna in Naples (1886)
Leu was honored with the title of Royal Professor . A Berlin art exhibition awarded him a large gold medal. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1855 he received an honorable mention for a landscape painting.
Leu's sons, August Leu the Younger , Oscar Leu and Otto Leu also became landscape painters.
literature
- Leu, August Wilhelm . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 335.
- Leu, August Wilhelm . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 854 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leu, August, painter, Jägerhofstr. 28 (E) , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1859
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 6, p. 212 ( online )
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SURNAME | Leu, August |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leu, August Wilhelm (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1818 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1897 |
Place of death | Seelisberg , Canton of Uri |