August Lucas

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August Lucas , self-portrait, around 1828

August Lucas (born May 7, 1803 in Darmstadt ; † September 28, 1863 there ) was a German graphic artist and landscape painter of the Romantic period .

Youth and education

The son of a master tailor attended high school in Darmstadt . He received his first artistic lessons in the drawing school of the museum with Franz Hubert Müller and from 1825 in Munich at the academy there . In the same year he went on a study trip to the Bernese Oberland with Daniel Fohr . Then he returned to Darmstadt to continue his autodidactic training.

Stay in Italy

Landscape from the Serpentara near Olevano , 1840

On a scholarship from the Darmstadt Grand Duke, Lucas traveled to Rome via Milan in October 1829 . He stayed in Italy until 1834. From Rome he made trips to the Alban Mountains and the Sabine Mountains , where he drew intensely "from nature". In 1830 he was in Olevano with Ludwig Preller . He also made the acquaintance of Joseph Anton Koch , with whom he kept in close contact. In 1832 Lucas traveled to Naples , Sorrento and Capri . Towards the end of his stay, he fell ill and ran into financial difficulties.

Work in Darmstadt

From 1834 to 1850 August Lucas was back in Darmstadt and created paintings of southern landscapes with the help of studies he had brought with him from Italy . He also dealt with representations from the Darmstadt area. In 1841 he got a job as a drawing teacher at two Darmstadt schools. In 1850 Lucas went on a second trip to Italy. Returning from Rome in 1854 he created the ballroom decoration for the United Society House built by the architect Georg Moller (destroyed in World War II). In 1861 he founded the Darmstadt Artists Society .

August Lucas was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: IC 122).

Known students

Lucas' group of students in Darmstadt included, among others:

Picture gallery

  • Mountain landscape , 1825

  • Lindenfelser Valley , 1829

  • The cypresses from the Villa d'Este in Tivoli , 1833

Exhibitions

literature

  • Rudolf Hofmann: August Lucas . In: The painting collection of the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt . 3. Edition. Grossh. Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1885, p. 24 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Lucas, August . In: Friedrich Back (Ed.): Directory of the paintings in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in the city of Cologne . Publishing house and printing company, Cologne 1913, German painters of the XIXth – XXth centuries. Century, p. 197–199 and 437–438 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - illustrations, two paintings [Roman landscape] and [Odenwald landscape in morning lighting]).
  • Lucas, 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. 429 .
  • Ralf Beil, Philipp Gutbrod: August Lucas - Who is looking for angels. Exhibition catalog, Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Darmstadt 2013.
  • Gisela Bergsträßer: Exhibition catalog August Lucas, 1803–1863. Darmstadt 1953.
  • Andreas Franzke: August Lucas 1803–1863. In: Art in Hesse and the Middle Rhine. Volume 12. Darmstadt 1972.
  • Jens Christian Jensen: watercolors and drawings of the German romanticism. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7701-0976-7 , p. 171.
  • Bernhard Lade: August Lucas. His life and his works. Darmstadt 1924.
  • Klaus Wolbert:  Lucas, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 270 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trip to Italy. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 8, 2013, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Lucas, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucas, Georg Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1863
Place of death Darmstadt