Emil Lugo

Albert Lang : Portrait of the painter Emil Lugo

At the Chiemsee

Emil Lugo (born June 24, 1840 in Stockach , † June 4, 1902 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

The son of the lawyer Karl Alphons Lugo began his studies at the age of 16 in 1856 at the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe under the first director of this art school, the Düsseldorf landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863). Here he got to know the painter Hans Thoma , who attended art school from October 1859 and with whom he would later have a lifelong friendship.

Schirmer died in September 1863, his successor was Hans Fredrik Gude , a student of Schirmer, whose way of working could be a reason for Lugo's departure from art school. This emerges from a letter from the painter Julius Uetz (1829–1885) to the Grand Duke of November 10, 1869, in which Gude is attacked, "who suppresses every independent talent that is deviating from his direction" and thereby, among others, Lugo already from the The institution. Lugo and Uetz were exchanging letters. In 1867, Lugo became a member of the Freiburg fraternity of Teutonia as hospes perpetuus .

Emil Lugo grave, Fraueninsel cemetery

Lugo went to Dresden in 1869 and then to Weimar , where he met the painter Friedrich Preller the Elder. Ä. met and was influenced by him in the long term. From 1871 to 1873 he went to Rome accompanied by Max Wilhelm Roman and repeated the trip in 1876 with his friend Thoma, whom he was able to convince with his travel descriptions, and Miss Kappler, a Swiss friend.

From 1875 he settled permanently in Freiburg and explored the surroundings of Freiburg and the Black Forest as a landscaper. During this time he met the poet Wilhelm Jensen , who came from northern Germany and was associated with Wilhelm Raabe . Wilhelm Jensen wanted to create a comprehensive description of the Black Forest and was able to win Emil Lugo as an illustrator. In addition to 50 originals from Lugo, Jensen's work also includes pictures by Wilhelm Hasemann and Max and Victor Roman .

When the Jensen family moved to Munich in 1888, they were accompanied by friends Emil Lugo and his brother Karl. The Jensen family owned a summer residence near Prien am Chiemsee from 1895 , which Emil Lugo used for artistic exploration of the Chiemsee area. With Jensens he made several trips to Italy from 1892 to 1894 and 1901.

Emil Lugo's grave is on Fraueninsel in the Chiemsee. The majority of his drawings are in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe , which held a major exhibition of Lugo's works in spring 2003.

Works

The Friedrich Louisen album , created by 60 Baden and 37 foreign artists in 1856 on the occasion of the marriage of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden to Princess Luise of Prussia , also contains a work by himself.

Painting of the dining room at Villa Jensen with the ideal Neapolitan landscape

Landscape paintings, drawings and etchings from the Black Forest, Bavarian mountains, the Chiemsee region and fantasy landscapes

literature

Joseph August Beringer : Emil Lugo. A German artist's life and artistic creation in the 19th century. Müller, Karlsruhe 1912. (2nd edition 1925).
Dietmar Lüdke: Lugo, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 496 f. ( Digitized version ).
Hermann Röver : Lugo, Emil . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 456-457 .
Hans Wagner: The painter Emil Lugo . In: Hegau Library . tape 11 . Association for the history of the Hegaus e. V., Radolfzell 1967, p. 79 ff .
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 473-475.

Web links

Commons : Emil Lugo - collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by and about Emil Lugo in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Adolf von Oechelhaeuser: History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation. Karlsruhe 1904.
^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings N Behringer No. 736.
↑ Hans Thoma: In the winter of life. Memories gathered from eight decades. Jena 1919. ( zeno.org )
^ ^A ^b Karlsruhe: Press releases Culture December 2002 and January 2003: Exhibition landscapes on paper. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 27, 2006 ; Retrieved July 5, 2012 .
↑ Adolf von Oechelhaeuser: History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation. Karlsruhe 1904.
↑ Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke (arrangement): Upper Bavaria. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2.) Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lugo, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockach
DATE OF DEATH	June 4, 1902
Place of death	Munich

[1] Adolf von Oechelhaeuser: History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation. Karlsruhe 1904.

[2] Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings N Behringer No. 736.

[3] Hans Thoma: In the winter of life. Memories gathered from eight decades. Jena 1919. ( zeno.org )

[presse-4] A ^b Karlsruhe: Press releases Culture December 2002 and January 2003: Exhibition landscapes on paper. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 27, 2006 ; Retrieved July 5, 2012 .

[5] Adolf von Oechelhaeuser: History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation. Karlsruhe 1904.

[6] Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke (arrangement): Upper Bavaria. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2.) Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .