August Leu (painter, 1818)

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August Leu , painting by Friedrich Boser , around 1840/1850

August Wilhelm Leu , also August Leu the Elder (born March 24, 1818 in Münster , † July 20, 1897 in Seelisberg , Canton Uri ), was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Leu devoted himself to landscape painting in Düsseldorf from 1840 to 1845 , primarily under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , and toured Norway in 1843 and 1847 , later to Switzerland , Tyrol, Upper Bavaria, Styria and Italy. He lived in Brussels for a short time, but returned to Düsseldorf. At the end of the 1850s, Leu was the owner of house number 28 in Jägerhofstrasse . In 1882 August Leu went to Berlin .

Mountain Lake , 1848

His landscapes are characterized by a great, romantic view of the alpine nature, masterful presentations, bright colors and well-calculated lighting effects. Of his numerous pictures, most of which he executed on a larger scale, the following should be emphasized:

  • Norwegian waterfall with fir forest (1848, museum in Oslo )
  • Sognefjord at noon (museum in Bremen)
  • Game near Berchtesgaden (Museum in Stuttgart)
  • Norwegian plateau (museum in Königsberg)
  • Waterfall (Museum in Vienna)
  • The Watzmann
  • The Dachstein
  • The Obersee
  • Sunset on the Sorrento coast
  • Oeschinensee near Kandersteg in the canton of Bern (1876, National Gallery of Berlin)
  • Lake Maggiore (1879)
  • The castle of Queen Johanna in Naples (1886)

Leu was honored with the title of Royal Professor . A Berlin art exhibition awarded him a large gold medal. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1855 he received an honorable mention for a landscape painting.

Leu's sons, August Leu the Younger , Oscar Leu and Otto Leu also became landscape painters.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Leu, August, painter, Jägerhofstr. 28 (E) , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1859
  2. Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 6, p. 212 ( online )