August Leonhardi

From the Giant Mountains

August Leonhardi (completely August Wolfram Christian Leonhardi , born June 10, 1867 in Loschwitz , † February 2, 1931 ibid) was a German landscape painter .

August Leonhardi was the son of the painter Eduard Leonhardi (1828–1905) and grandson of the Dresden ink manufacturer August Leonhardi (1805–1865). After taking his first painting lessons from his father, he studied at the Dresden Art Academy from 1885 to 1886 . He then continued his education with August Fink and Karl Raupp in Munich, but was not entered in the matriculation register of the Munich Academy .

From 1889 Leonhardi sent exhibitions, became a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative , a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists in Germany and the General German Art Cooperative and the Dresden Art Cooperative . Around 1888 he became a member of the “Münchner Wednesday Society” around the Munich publisher Hugo Bruckmann .

Leonhardi worked in Munich until 1897, then in Blasewitz near Dresden and later in Dresden-Loschwitz. He went on study trips to the Rhön, Bohemia, the Giant Mountains and the area around Dresden.

literature

• Leonhardi, August. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 839 ( archive.org ).
• Leonhardi, 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. 82 .
• Leonhardi, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 213 – page bis .
• Emmanuel Bénézit (founder): Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , 3rd edition, Gründ, Paris 1976, volume 5, p.

Web links

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

• Biography at the auction house Mehlis