Augustus Corvus
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Augustus Cordus, The Fall, 1544, Art Institute of Chicago
Augustus Corvus (also Augustus Cordus ) was a German painter who worked in the second half of the 16th century .
He was a student of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. and worked for a while in his workshop. From 1555 at the latest he stayed in Dresden . A painting signed and dated “Augustus Corvus / faciebat. / 1558” depicting “ Maria with the Child ” was acquired by the Berlin Gemäldegalerie in 1911 and loaned to the German Embassy in London in 1937. In 1945 it was confiscated by the Allies and auctioned off. Its whereabouts have been unknown since then.
literature
- Corvus, Augustine . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 500 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Dieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk: Lucas Cranach. Painting. Drawings. Print graphics. Volume 1, Basel / Stuttgart 1974, p. 34.
- Gero Seelig: Augustus Corvus . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 385.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corvus, Augustus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cordus, Augustus (alternative spelling); August raven? (possible German name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |