Carl Ludwig Scheins

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Carl Ludwig Scheins (born September 14, 1808 in Aachen , † October 23, 1879 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

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Carl Ludwig Scheins, who grew up in Aachen, moved to Düsseldorf as a young man, where he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1830 to 1837 he specialized in landscape painting and attended Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's master class . He belongs to the circle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , as mentioned in 1836 by the archivist and writer Johann Josef Scotti , and later by Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter in his Düsseldorf artist album. The Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , where some selected exhibits from this painting school (in addition to the paintings by Scheins, among others, works by Schirmer, Oswald and Andreas Achenbach and Caspar Scheuren ) are assigned to this artistic milieu.

In 1840, Carl Ludwig Scheins was awarded the Medal of Merit for Foreign Artists as part of the art exhibition in Antwerp .

In his landscape pictures it becomes clear that Scheins dealt meticulously with the design and seasonal appearance of nature. In particular, his representations of trees of all kinds are characterized by an exact, almost anatomical shape. The representation of individual buildings, churchyards, ruins and other structures standing in the landscape show a high degree of architectural subtlety in Scheins. His landscape pictures are supplemented with people and animals, which, as if by chance, were doing their specific activity at the time the picture was created and thereby animate the picture without being significantly in the foreground. Nevertheless, many of his works, especially the winter landscapes, exude a certain melancholy in their overall impression due to the skillful use of different lighting components , as Wolfgang Müller describes.

Works (selection)

The Koehler
Seascape in the moonlight (night landscape with hunters by the fire)
  • Late summer day at the mountain lake , oil / canvas.
  • Mountain valley with lake and steep banks , oil / Ldw.
  • Southern landscape , oil / canvas.
  • Stormy summer seascape with a tree-lined shore , oil / canvas.
  • Seascape with moonlight (night landscape with hunters by the fire) , oil / canvas.
  • Hunter with his dog on a wooded stream , Öl / Ldw.
  • The Köhler , oil / canvas.
  • Winter forest landscape with two wood readers. Romantic depiction , oil / canvas.
  • A small church in winter , oil / canvas.
  • In the winter forest , oil / canvas.
  • A winter walk, oil / canvas.
  • Snow-covered landscape with frozen oxbow lake , oil / canvas.

Literature and Sources

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Scheins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.
  2. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 144 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Collection of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suermondt-ludwig-museum.de
  4. ↑ Selection of landscape images
  5. ↑ Selection of winter landscapes
personal data
SURNAME Scheins, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1879
Place of death Dusseldorf