August Gustav Lasinsky

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Church interior of St. Gangolf in Trier, choir wall painting in a Gothic pointed arch by August Gustav Lasinsky, 1844
Pilgrims to the exhibition of the Holy Rock in front of Trier , 1847, original in the City Museum Simeonstift Trier
1410. The German king Rupert of the Rhine , accompanied by his brother, Friedrich von Zollern , are by Elector Werner von Trier is situated on the banks of the Rhine , Fresco Stolzenfels Castle, completed by Lasinsky 1844, restored several times

August Gustav Lasinsky (born October 27, 1811 in Koblenz , † July 24, 1870 in Mainz ) was a German painter and draftsman of German Romanticism . He became known for his altarpieces and wall paintings in Catholic churches in the Rhineland . Lasinsky's religious painting is assigned to the Nazarene art of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Lasinsky and his older brother Johann Adolf , a well-known landscape and architectural painter of the Rhine Romanticism , came from the old Polish and German nobility. The father Friedrich Karl was treasurer at the court of Stanislaus II August Poniatowski in Warsaw and came to Germany as a revolutionary refugee. In 1809 he was the "mounted collector of indirect taxes" for the canton of Simmern in the French Rhine-Moselle department . The mother was the Rhenish poet Anna Maria Lasinsky , great niece of the Vice Chancellor of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg , Georg Joseph Freiherr von Knapp . He received his first painting training from his older brother Johann Adolf, and also from the painter Simon Meister . In 1830 he studied with Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow at the Düsseldorf Academy, in 1836 he moved to the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main and became a student of Philipp Veit . In 1844 he converted to Catholicism and belonged to the group of political Catholicism around August Reichensperger , whom he probably knew from Koblenz and as a committed supporter of the completion of the Cologne Cathedral . In 1848/1849 he was one of the leading members of the democratic Pius Society .

In the summer of 1852, Lasinsky is said to have had an affair with Emilie Marx while he was painting frescoes for St. Gangolf in Trier .

Works

Lasinsky began with portrait and landscape painting. After his conversion , he mainly devoted himself to religious topics and received orders for altarpieces and murals, among others in the "Kreuzchen" chapel in Trier (1845/46, restored in 2008), in the Catholic town church of St. Gangolf (1849/51, restored in 1980) , St. Martin in Mainz-Finthen (1854/56, restored in 1989 and changed in content), St. Joseph in Alzey (1860).

In 1841 he worked on the restoration and addition of wall paintings in the nave in the still unfinished Cologne Cathedral. He thus caught the attention of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia , who commissioned him in 1844 with the execution of historicizing exterior wall frescoes on the history of the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach family on the façade of the rebuilt Stolzenfels Castle facing the Rhine (heavily washed out around 1900, later inadequately refreshed).
Many works by AG Lasinsky were disfigured or removed during later church renovations. B. in St. Menas in Koblenz-Stolzenfels or St. Kilian in Mainz-Kostheim . They are only preserved in the graphic collection of the Landesmuseum Mainz as draft drawings or copies . The best-known example of this is the largely removed painting of the Mainz Cathedral in 1925/28 , with which the aged Philipp Veit was commissioned in 1861 and which his students Th. Herrmann, Lasinky and Joseph Anton Settegast carried out based on the designs of Veits.

literature

  • Moritz Blanckarts :  Lasinsky, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 732 f.
  • Lasinsky, August Gustav . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 812 f.
  • Adolf Jungjohann (for the editor: Koblenz Museum Association): Koblenz painter a hundred years ago , (contributions to the history of Koblenz painting in the first half of the nineteenth century) Koblenz 1929, publisher of the Municipal Museum Association, HL Scheid printing house.
  • Annette Wohlgemuth: Lasinsky, Gustav . In: Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Volume 2, Munich 1998, 312 f.
  • Bärbel Schulte: Lasinsky, August (in) Gustav . In: Heinz Monz (ed.): Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 250.

Web links

Commons : August Gustav Lasinsky  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen König, Der Hunsrück in French Time 1789 / 94-1814 , Dissertation Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-9804416-0-1 .
  2. ↑ Mario Kramp (ed.), August Reichensperger. Koblenz-Cologne-Europe , exhibition catalog Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz 2004, ISBN 3-928377-28-0
  3. ↑ "Incidentally, according to Mütterchen's private communications, Emilie is said to have secretly entered into a love affair with the very poor Catholic landscape painter Lasinky." ( Jenny Marx to Karl Marx , May 30 to June 2, 1852; Marx-Engels complete edition . Section III. Volume 5, p. 381).
  4. ↑ "The inner wall of the choir is decorated with a large-scale mural from the middle of the 19th century by August Gustav Lasinsky".
  5. ↑ Landesmuseum Mainz, Travel Routes to the Nazarenes in Rhineland-Palatinate , Catalog Exhibition 2012, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2649-1
    and Klaus Weschenfelder, Vol. VI of the inventory catalog of the Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz 1999
personal data
SURNAME Lasinsky, August Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasinsky, Augustin Gustav; Lasinsky, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1870
Place of death Mainz