August Lemmer

August Ludwig Carl Lemmer (born March 3, 1862 in Deutz , † August 27, 1933 in Karlsruhe ) was a German artist.

Life

Lemmer studied from 1880 to 1887 at the Dusseldorf Art Academy in Hugo Crola , Julius Roeting , Peter Janssen the Elder , Adolf Schill and from 1888 to 1892 at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and was subsequently reflected in the Baden capital as a painter. He lived at No. 3 Hoffstrasse.

August Lemmer: Sailing boats in front of Venice , oil on cardboard, ca.1900.

Lemmer made a name for himself as the author of Impressionist landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes. Numerous paintings by the artist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries have survived , mainly showing motifs from Carniola , Trieste and Venice , but also German cityscapes, for example Munich. A favorite theme of Lemmer, which he worked on in numerous variations, are fishing boats off the coast of Venice.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1902: Glaspalast Munich for the Kunstgenossenschaft Karlsruhe (KGK), painting batch from Trieste.
• 1903: Glaspalast Munich for the Karlsruhe Art Cooperative, painting Der Alte.
• 1904: Glaspalast Munich for the Karlsruhe Art Cooperative, painting in the laundry room.
• 1905: in Künstlerhaus I., Karlsplatz 5 in Vienna, oil painting Landscape in Carniola .

literature

• Leo Mülfarth : Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters. 2nd edition, Karlsruhe 1987, ISBN 3-7617-0250-7 .
• Lemmer, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 29 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church book 7th Artillery Brigade, 2nd Department and 7th Craftsman Compagnie . 1851-1866. To baptize. No. 6/1862.
2. ^ Karlsruhe registry office : death register . No. 1188/1933.
3. ↑ Collection signature of the Düsseldorf Art Academy for August Lemmer: BR 0004 No. 1561 (1880 to 1887).
4. ^ Adolf von Oechelhaeuser: History of the Grand Ducal Baden Academy of Fine Arts; Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation on behalf of the Academy and with the support of the Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice, Culture and Education . G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1904, directory of students from 1854 to 1903, p. 164 , No. 538 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ^ Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1902 in the Royal Glass Palace . Munich Artists' Cooperative, Munich 1902, p. 72 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
6. ^ Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1903 in the Royal Glass Palace . Munich Artists' Cooperative, Munich 1903, p. 68 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
7. ^ Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1904 in the Royal Glass Palace . Munich Artists' Cooperative, Munich 1904, p. 68 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
8. ^ Catalog of the 32 year exhibition in Vienna . Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna, Vienna 1905, p. 72 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).