Alexander Nikolaus Borsow

Alexander Nikolaus Borsow (* 1854 in Marzen, Livonia Gouvernement , Russian Empire ; † January 30, 1895 in Riga ) was a German-Baltic landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

After taking art lessons in Riga, Borsow went to Düsseldorf in 1878 . He studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1884. Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Peter Janssen the Elder, and above all Eugen Dücker , in whose landscape classes he studied from 1881 to 1884, were his teachers. He settled in Düsseldorf and opened a studio . In 1888 his pictures were exhibited in Riga. In 1893 he returned there entirely and soon after ended his life "in poor circumstances".

literature

Borsow, Alexander Nikolaus v. In: Wilhelm Neumann : Lexicon of Baltic artists . Published by Jonck & Poliewski, Riga 1908, p. 19.
Borsow, Alexander Nikolaus . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 378 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Alexander Nikolaus Borsow , Auction Results on artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Theilmann : The students of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein . The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 14.7

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 427. See nos. 1424–1430 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia ).

↑ 1840–1890: Mākslas dzīve , website on the makslasvesture.lv portal (in Latvian), accessed on October 21, 2017

personal data
SURNAME	Borsow, Alexander Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marzen, Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1895
Place of death	Riga

[1] Rudolf Theilmann : The students of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein . The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 14.7

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 427. See nos. 1424–1430 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia ).

[3] 1840–1890: Mākslas dzīve , website on the makslasvesture.lv portal (in Latvian), accessed on October 21, 2017