August from Eye

August Johann Ludolf von Eye (born May 24, 1825 in Fürstenau , Osnabrück district , Lower Saxony; † January 10, 1896 in Nordhausen , Thuringia) was a German poet, philosopher , writer, cultural and art historian and painter .

Life

Eye came from a noble family from Lower Saxony and was the eldest son of the notary and city secretary Ludwig von Eye . In 1845 he went to the University of Göttingen to study law , but soon turned to philosophical and historical studies, which he continued at the Berlin University . During his studies in 1845 he became a member of the old Berlin fraternity Germania .

In 1853 Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufseß (1801–1872) appointed him to the Germanisches Museum in Nuremberg as director of the art and antiquity collections. He organized, cataloged and increased them, which at the same time offered him rich material on art and cultural-historical studies . He followed 1875 a call to the art school to Dresden , settled in 1879 but after Brazil about where he is the German colonization efforts devoted (see. His writing The Emigrant , Berlin 1885).

Works

Of his writings, the best known is:

Life and work of Albrecht Dürer (Nördlingen 1860; new edition enlarged with an appendix, the 1870).

Then, in addition to many smaller works, he published the guide through the Germanisches Museum , which appeared in several editions, in the Anzeiger für Kunde der Germanische Prehzeit with the pictures:

- Art and Life of Prehistory (with Jacob von Falke , Nuremberg 1854; 3rd edition 1868, 3 vols.);
- Gallery of Masterpieces of German Woodcarving Art (Nuremberg 1858–61);
Germany 300 years ago in life and art (Leipzig 1857); also the writings:
The realm of the beautiful , an aesthetic (Berlin 1878);
Essence and Value of Dasein (2nd edition Berlin 1886) and the novel dealing with the life of the Silesian poet Johann Christian Günther
A human soul (Nördlingen. 1863).

literature

Franz Brümmer: Eye, August von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 460-462.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 186-187.

Web links

Literature by and about August von Eye in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about August von Eye in the German Digital Library
Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

personal data
SURNAME	Eye, August of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eye, August Johann Ludolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet, philosopher, writer, cultural and art historian and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fürstenau , Osnabrück district , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1896
Place of death	Nordhausen , Thuringia