August Blankenstein

Pipe Smoker (1919)

August Blankenstein (born September 20, 1876 in Riemke near Bochum , † October 4, 1931 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

August Blankenstein attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1891 and 1892 . There was Heinrich Lauenstein his teacher. He also took private lessons with the Düsseldorf portrait and genre painter Franz Thöne and with Eduard Gebhardt . From 1909 to 1931 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . As a member of the Düsseldorf Artists' Association , he had a studio in the Künstlerhaus on Sittarder Strasse.

In addition to genre pictures, he also painted pictures of religious content.

Works (selection)

• 1912/13 with Joseph Bartscher : Stations of the Cross for the Liebfrauenkirche in Holzwickede
• Adoration of the Shepherds , foyer of the Trinity Hospital in Lippstadt

literature

• Dressler's art manual 1930.
• Blankenstein, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 228 .
• Gudrun Schmidt-Esters: Blankenstein, August . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22751-5 , p. 426.
• Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 439.

Web links

Commons : August Blankenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• August Blankenstein. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
• Auction results in the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ finding aid 212.01.04 student lists the Dusseldorf Art Academy , the portal website archive.nrw.de ( State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia ).
2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF .
3. ^ Page of the parish .