Caroline Lauska

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Caroline Friederike Henriette Lauska (née Ermeler ; born April 5, 1787 in Berlin ; † November 9, 1871 there ) was a German painter in Berlin and Düsseldorf .

Life

Caroline Lauska was the daughter of the textile manufacturer Christian Ermeler (1735–1793) and his fourth wife Louise Charlotte Friederike Wilhelmine Ermeler, née Stade (1764–1822). The half-brother Wilhelm Ermeler became a tobacco manufacturer and patron of the arts ( Ermelerhaus ) .

Caroline married the famous pianist Franz Lauska in 1809 , who was among other things the teacher of Giacomo Meyerbeer . She became a member of the Berlin Singakademie and was in contact with well-known musicians such as the composers Carl Maria von Weber and Carl Friedrich Zelter .

Caroline Lauska took drawing lessons from Carl Kretschmar and was involved in the exhibition at the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1812. In 1821 she traveled to Italy (Milan, Rome) with her husband.

Caroline Lauska had been a student of Wilhelm von Schadow since around 1822 and followed him to Düsseldorf ( Düsseldorf School of Painting ) in 1826 after the death of her husband as a painter . In 1826, 1832, 1834, 1839 and 1841 she was involved with works in Berlin Academy exhibitions, and in 1841 also in Dresden .

In 1830 she traveled to Italy again. From around 1832 she lived again in Berlin, traveled to Holland in 1835 with the writer Karl Immermann and Elisa von Ahlefeldt and to Italy for the last time in 1841/1842.

Works (selection)

Caroline Lauskau created paintings and numerous drawings, including many portraits of people around her.

  • The Shackled Cupid , 1823, oil painting, Museum Wiesbaden
  • Girl from Procida , oil painting, around 1825, copy after painting by Louis Léopold Robert (from 1822), 1826 at the Berlin Academy Exhibition (No. 223)
  • Portrait , after nature, 1826 at the Academy exhibition in Berlin (No. 224)
  • A praying angel , 1826 at the Berlin Academy Exhibition (No. 225)
  • Drei Frauen am Grabe des Herr (Three women at Christ's tomb) , oil painting, begun in Italy in 1829, at the Academy Exhibition in Berlin in 1832, then in the possession of the King of Prussia
  • Amor und die drei Graces (Cupid and the three Graces) , oil painting, 1844

Works by and for Caroline Lauska

Portraits

  • Wilhelm Hensel : Portrait of Caroline Lauska , around 1815 (?), Drawing
  • Julie von Egloffstein : Portrait of Frau Lauska , 1830, pencil drawing, on the back of the drawing Landscape near Sorrento

composition

  • Franz Lauska : Capriccio et Polacca , Opus 36, dedicated to his beloved wife

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, ... Volume 7. Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1839. P. 342

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Caroline Lauska and Carl Friedrich Zelter. In: Anke Sieber: Franz Lauska (1764-1825). Biography, letters, catalog raisonné. Hainholz, Göttingen 2016, pp. 436–438.
  2. ^ Caroline Lauska AKG
  3. ↑ girl Procido (around 1825) and Cupid and the Three Graces (1844) Arcadja
  4. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 7. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1839. p. 342
  5. ^ Prussian portraits of the 19th century. Drawings by Wilhelm Hensel. Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1981 (exhibition catalog), in Caroline Lauska CMWGA
  6. ↑ landscape at Sorrento Vialibri
personal data
SURNAME Lauska, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauska, Caroline Friederike Henriette (full name); Ermeler, Caroline Friederike Henriette (maiden name); Lauska, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1871
Place of death Berlin