August Bausch
August Bausch (born March 2, 1818 in Bonn , † February 28, 1909 ) was a German history , genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Bausch came from Bonn to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Karl Ferdinand's son was his teacher there from 1835 to 1839 . After completing his studies, he worked in Düsseldorf and Bonn. In 1839 he exhibited the picture of Abraham and Isaac's sacrifice in Frankfurt am Main . As a history painter, the art professor Rudolf Wiegmann noticed him through his paintings Gretchen and Martha (after Goethe's Faust) (1841) and Knights Templar on the Morning Watch (1843). However, Bausch made a name for himself as a portrait painter and portrait draftsman in his hometown of Bonn, where he created portraits of students in particular, such as that of his nephew Hermann Deiters . His portrait of the Bonn astrologer Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander , created around 1868, is also well known .
Works (selection)
- Saint Servatius in the bishop's robe , 1840
- Oriental port city with a junk and Chinese merchant boats , oil on panel, 32 × 46 cm
literature
- Hermann Board : Bausch, August . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 93 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Volume 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 439.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
- ^ Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 238 ( Google Books )
- ^ Sabine Gertrud Cremer: Nicolaus Christian Hohe (1798–1868). University drawing teacher in Bonn . Lit, Bonn studies on art history, Volume 16, Münster 2001, ISBN 978-3-8258-5550-5 , p. 93
- ↑ Ralph Burmester, Jörg Bradenahl: The measurement of the sky. An exhibition in the Deutsches Museum Bonn . In: Culture & Technology . Issue 1/2010, p. 49, PDF
- ↑ Day saint May 13th - St. Servatius , website in the portal mariens-hilfe.org , accessed on March 18, 2020
- ↑ August Bausch , website in the de.artendung portal , accessed on March 18, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bausch, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history, genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1909 |