August Carl Libert Lentz

August Carl Libert Lentz (born February 16, 1827 in Hamburg , † December 15, 1898 in Tunis ) was a German portrait and genre painter .

Life

August Lentz, son of the broker Ernst Constantin Lentz, brother of Bernhard Hugo Lentz , first studied in Berlin before he then stayed in Munich. Between 1847 and 1849 he was a student in Thomas Couture's studio in Paris. He interrupted his teaching stay in 1848/49 because he took part as a volunteer in the First Schleswig-Holstein War . He then traveled to Saxony, Bohemia, Bavaria, Switzerland and England. Lentz studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1850/51 . Between 1857 and 1859 he was in Hamburg, where he became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . Lentz went on a trip to Africa in 1875. On the way back he traveled via Venice and Paris to London, later he went via Rome to Tunis, where he settled.

Works

• Self-portrait, 1848/1851, oil on canvas, 127.5 × 102.5 cm, Hamburg, HAKH, Inv. No. HK-2245

literature

• Hamburg Artist Lexicon. Vol. 1, Hamburg 1854, p. 145 ( digitized version ).
• Youth memories of Anna Lentz . In: Der Lenzgarten 2012/4, p. 10 ( digitized version ).
• Eva Knels: Lentz, August Carl Libert . 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.?.