August de Laspée

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August de Laspée (born February 2, 1816 in Wiesbaden ; † December 9, 1901 there ) was a German artist from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

August de Laspée was born in Wiesbaden in 1816 as the son of the court and high school councilor Johannes de Laspée (1783-1825) and Theresia Elsinger. The father, a student of the Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , made sure that his son also went to Pestalozzi's educational institution. De Laspée then trained as a painter at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . One of his teachers was Professor Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , who taught him landscape painting. De Laspée was very much appreciated by the formerly world-famous Ludwig Knaus . This emerges from a report that Knaus issued to his painter colleague in 1862 so that he could find permanent employment as the conservator of the Herzoglich-Nassauische Gemäldegalerie. In Wiesbaden he also worked as a painter and drawing teacher and left behind a theoretical work entitled Basic rules of the painterly perspective . The book was published by M. Bischkopff in Wiesbaden in 1883. In the foreword de Laspée wrote: “You shouldn't want to train artists in school, because the artist is born; the school alone should be a sure guide to talent. "

Works (selection)

  • Landscape near Adolfseck , around 1878, Museum Wiesbaden
  • Langenau Castle on the Lahn , Wiesbaden Museum

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 925 No. 2715, p. 209 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Estimated by Ludwig Knaus. Anniversary: ​​The painter August de Laspée was born in Wiesbaden 200 years ago . Article from February 2, 2016 in the portal wiesbadener-kurier.de , accessed on February 7, 2016
  3. ^ Digital collections of the Bauhaus University Weimar: August de Laspée: Basic rules of the painterly perspective
  4. ^ Museum Wiesbaden, Landscape near Adolfseck , around 1878, oil on canvas, 42 × 50 cm, inventory no. M 151
  5. ^ Museum Wiesbaden, Burg Langenau an der Lahn , no year, oil on canvas, 24 × 31 cm, inventory no. M 152
personal data
SURNAME Laspée, August de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1901
Place of death Wiesbaden