Adolf Leichum

Adolf Leichum (* 1842 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 1906 there ) was a German genre painter , lithographer and art teacher.

Life

From 1861 to 1863, Adolf Leichum received a scholarship from Jakob Becker at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Between 1865 and 1870 he stayed in Paris , where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts . In 1875 Leichum was again a scholarship holder and student at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main, this time with Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst . In 1880 he passed his state examination as a drawing teacher in Düsseldorf. From 1881 he was a teacher at the Frankfurt School of Applied Arts.

Works

• Interior with a family, 1857, oil / cardboard, 27 × 35.5 cm, sign. ul: Marlotte 1857 H. Behmer, Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, art collections, inv. No. G 652
• Straße in Marlotte, 1857, oil / cardboard, 25.3 × 34 cm, inscribed. ul: Marlotte 1857, re. ur: H. Behmer, Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, art collections, inv. No. G 653

literature

• Directory of paintings and art sheets by modern masters, including the artistic estate of May of the J. deceased Mr. Adolf Leichum, Frankfurt a. M., antiques, objets d'art, oriental a. ethnographic collection from the property of the Capitaine de la Kéthulle de Ryhoven, Bruxelles. Auction in Frankfurt a. M. in the auction room for art items September 4th and 5th, 1906 under the direction of Rudolf Bangel . Frankfurt am Main 1906.
• Gitta Ho: Leichum, Adolf (Adolph) In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, p.?.