Carl Johann Lasch
Carl Johann Lasch (born July 1, 1822 in Leipzig , † August 28, 1888 in Moscow ) was a German painter .
Life
Lasch began his artistic studies at the Dresden Art Academy and became a private student of Eduard Bendemann around 1838 . With his recommendation, Lasch came to the Munich Art Academy in 1844 , where he became a student of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Wilhelm Kaulbach . Under their influence, Lasch created several history pictures , including a. Enzio in prison , Eberhard the bushy beard and The Singers' War on the Wartburg .
After a study tour of Italy, he went to Moscow for almost ten years in 1847 to carry out a number of commissions in the portrait field . Between 1857 and 1859 Lasch lived and worked in Paris , where he stayed for two years. Here he painted Tannhäuser and Venus , Tintoretto , his daughter a. v. a. He also studied the works of old and new masters in the galleries.
Lasch was a member of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the St. Petersburg Academy of Art .
At the beginning of 1859 he went to Moscow for a year and after his return in 1860 he settled in Düsseldorf as a successful freelance artist and became a member of the artists' association Malkasten . The first painting he completed there was Eginhard and Emma . As a result, however, Lasch devoted himself increasingly to genre painting .
In 1869 King Wilhelm I of Prussia honored him with the title of professor. Carl Lasch died in 1888 at the age of 66.
family
He was married to Sophie Ferrein. They had a son and two daughters:
- Hermann Lasch , landscape painter, born in Düsseldorf in 1861, died there in 1926
- Helene (Nelly) Lasch, born in Düsseldorf in 1862, died in Moscow in 1896
- Else Lasch, born in Düsseldorf in 1870, died in Moscow in 1918
Both daughters were married to the Russian manufacturer Eduard Rabeneck.
Works (selection)
- Apothéose de Henri IV , 1858, copy after Peter Paul Rubens (Paris, AMN c)
- Portrait de jeune Femme , whereabouts unknown (Salon 1859, No. 497)
- Le Tannhaeuser , whereabouts unknown (ibid., No. 496; Boetticher)
- Tintoretto and his daughter , whereabouts unknown (Boetticher).
- Kinderlust (1862, Dresden Gallery)
- At the young widow's (engraved by Vogel)
- Coming home from the parish fair
- The village doctor embarrassed
- Behind the mill
- The old school teacher's birthday (1866, National Gallery in Berlin)
- The Arrest (1872);
- Orphaned (1874)
- Singing girls at the edge of the forest (1875)
- Mühlenthal Castle (1875)
- David and Jonathan (Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf)
- Swabian Wedding Painting (Vollmer Collection Foundation)
- Baroness von Knoop (Foundation Vollmer Collection)
- Baron von Knoop (Vollmer Collection Foundation)
- Gustav Bunge (1872)
- August Bolten (1883)
- Adolph Godeffroy (1882)
literature
- Eva Knels: Lasch, Carl Johann In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (Ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.
- Lasch, Karl Johann . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1891, p. 811.
Web links
- Carl Johann Lasch , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swabian wedding painting, 1868
- ^ Portrait of the Baroness von Knoop, 1874
- ^ Portrait of the Baron von Knoop, 1878
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lasch, Carl Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lasch, Karl Johann; Lax, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1888 |
| Place of death | Moscow |