August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn

Self-portrait (1827), Ahlborn with a red beret, to the right of his brother

View of the New Palace in Potsdam, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover

View of Greece's blossom, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin

View of Florence, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin

August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn (born October 11, 1796 in Hanover , † August 24, 1857 in Rome ) was a German landscape painter of the 19th century.

Live and act

Ahlborn was the son of the Hanoverian master tailor Christian Heinrich Ahlborn and Dorothea Elisabeth Röllecke. He went through an unsatisfactory five-year apprenticeship with a carpenter. He then stayed in Braunschweig and took up residence in Berlin in 1816. There he married Therese, daughter of Oberbergrates Martin, in December 1832 . The marriage remained childless. Ahlborn entered the Academy of Arts (Berlin) in 1819 . Here he studied from 1822 with Karl Wilhelm Wach . In 1826 he received a prize from the academy for the portrait of the New Palace in Potsdam and was able to use the money to travel to Italy. In 1833 he became a member of the academy. In 1827 he went to Italy. Here he was one of the co-founders of the Roman Art Association. He lived in Rome , Florence and Ascoli . In Italy , Ahlborn converted to Roman Catholicism on August 15, 1837, together with his wife . His pictures mainly show Italian, North German and Tyrolean landscapes, but also some religious works. Many of his works went into the possession of the royal family of Prussia.

Works (selection)

• Gothic cathedral on the water , 1823 (inspired by a work by Karl Friedrich Schinkel )
• The Paulinzella Monastery Ruins , 1824, oil on canvas, 86 × 111 cm, Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg .
• View of the New Palace in Potsdam , 1826, 124.8 × 185 cm, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
• Coastal landscape on the Gulf of Naples , 1832, oil on canvas, 24 × 80.2 cm, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
• View into Greece's Bloom , 1832
• View of Florence , 1832, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
• Mountain landscape , around 1835
• Syracuse in the morning light , 1836, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
• View of Spoleto , around 1840, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
• Ruins of the Villa Mills on the Palatine Hill in Rome , 1843, oil on canvas, 33.2 × 46.8 cm
• Vesuvius landscape , 1852, oil on canvas, 37.5 × 45.5 cm.
• View of Lake Como , oil on canvas, 100 × 138 cm.
• Self-portrait with brother , detail of image below, diameter 43 cm, 1827, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover (in the background city view of Berlin)

literature

• Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Ahlborn, August Wilhelm Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 158 f.
• Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf:  Ahlborn, August Julius Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 107 ( digitized version ).

See also

• List of members of the Hannoversche Künstlerverein

Web links

Commons : August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files