Carl Martin Laeisz
Carl Martin Laeisz (pronounced: "Leiß", born June 23, 1803 in Hamburg ; † May 21, 1864 ibid) was a German painter and watercolorist from the Hamburg School .
Life
Carl Martin Laeisz was the son of the businessman Johann Hartwig Laeisz and his wife Catharina Maria Greve. His brother was the merchant and shipowner Ferdinand Laeisz (1801–1887). He first made an apprenticeship as a decorative painter with the master painter Gustav Staack in Altona . He then went to study at the Berlin Art Academy from 1824 to 1826 . His teachers there were the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow and the painter Johann Erdmann Hummel . Laeisz then went on a journey through Switzerland and studied gouache painting with Johann Ludwig Bleuler in Schaffhausen from 1826 to 1828 , followed by a study visit to Paris in 1828/29 .
Back in Hamburg he worked as a painter's journeyman for two years, became a master and opened his own workshop. In 1846/48 he created wall decorations for the home of the lawyer Carl August Schröder on Eppendorfer Landstrasse (later known as the “ Mayor Schröder House”, demolished in 1928).
Laeisz was one of the first members of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . The painter and etcher Hermann Kauffmann was one of his friends . One of his talents was the mediation of contacts between the Hamburg artist circle and art centers abroad.
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At the beginning of his artistic activity he mainly created gouache paintings with Italian and Alpine motifs and titles such as Venice or Isola Bella . In his later creative years he concentrated on watercolors with a homeland reference such as Hamburg, Lübeck or Hildesheim . The lithographs made afterwards became known before and after the fire and interior of the Michaeliskirche . The consequences of the Hamburg fire of 1842 with its catastrophic destruction brought him increasingly business success as the owner and manager of a painting workshop. One of his greatest social successes was the opening of an exhibition by the Danish royal couple in 1840 , on which his gouache Swiss prospectus could also be seen.
literature
- Heitmann: Laeisz, Carl Maria . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 193-195 .
- Gustav Lindtke: Old Lübeck city views . Lübeck 1968, pp. 6-7. 28.101 No. 75.
- Erich Lüth : 600 years of painters in Hamburg . Publisher: Painters and Varnishers Guild Hamburg, Hans Christians Druckerei, Hamburg 1975, p. 277.
- Manfred Mehl: Carl Martin Laeisz. A painter from Hamburg sees Hildesheim . In: Hildesheimer Jahrbuch für Stadt und Stift Hildesheim 75, 2003, pp. 181–186.
- Kay Rump (Ed.): The New Rump. Lexicon of Fine Arts in Altona and the surrounding area. Wachholtz-Verlag, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02792-8 , p. 259.
Web links
- Works on artnet.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laeisz, Carl Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laeisz, Carl; Laeisz, Karl; Laeisz, Carl M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and watercolorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1864 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |