August Grothaus

August Grothaus (* around 1812; † after 1841) was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Coming from Barmen , Grothaus studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1833 to 1839 . There he was a student of Theodor Hildebrandt . From 1835 he exhibited in Düsseldorf. In 1837 and 1841 he sent exhibitions to the Leipzig Art Association . He created portraits and paintings with titles such as Deer , Crusader and Evening Prayer of the Reaper .

literature

Grothaus, August . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 110 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 120, no. 54 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Grothaus, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre painter and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1812
DATE OF DEATH	after 1841

[1] Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )

[2] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 120, no. 54 ( digitized version )