Epiphane Denis

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Epiphane Denis (born December 17, 1823 in Liège ; † February 18, 1891 ibid) was a Belgian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Denis, brother of the portrait painter Louis Denis (1821–1843), attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1841/1842 . There he was a student in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class . Denis mainly painted landscape motifs from the Rhine Province , Luxembourg and the Ardennes .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144
  2. Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 429