Friedrich August de Leuw

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Friedrich August de Leuw (born May 10, 1817 in Gräfrath near Solingen , † June 16, 1888 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

De Leuw was born as the eldest son of the ophthalmologist Friedrich Hermann de Leuw in Gräfrath. After attending the Catholic high school in Cologne , he trained as a landscape painter at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1838 - with an interruption due to military service in 1839/1840 . His first sketchbook dates back to 1837. From 1840 to 1843 he attended Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class at the Düsseldorf Academy . On the advice of his teacher, he hiked with fellow students through the Neandertal and the Eifel , later on the Rhine , Moselle and Nahe . De Leuw toured the Netherlands in the 1840s . In 1851 he was represented with a work in the Düsseldorf Gallery in New York City . In 1861 he traveled to Hackney near London .

On May 25, 1861, he married Maria Frances Charrington there, with whom he settled in London in 1861/1862 and later lived at the Grünewald house in Graefrath. She gave birth to the children Adeline Maria Elisabeth (* 1862) , Friedrich Herrmann (* 1864), Franziska Maria (* 1865) and Alfred Reginald (* 1867). The Grünewald house, the extension of which served as his studio , was generously redesigned and expanded by de Leuw until 1866. De Leuw spent the last twenty years of his life mainly in Manderscheid and Düsseldorf. He was buried in Graefrath.

Works (selection)

The Doktorsburg , 1846, pen and ink drawing in watercolors

242 works and nine sketchbooks are known by de Leuw, who is considered to be a representative of late Romanticism . His oeuvre is characterized by the combination of a realistic conception of nature with romantic idealization.

  • Gräfrather Markt , 1837, colored drawing
  • Icy marshland in the Hilden Heath , 1840
  • Landscape near Delft , 1841
  • Windmill on a winterly frozen canal , 1841
  • Winter at a Dutch harbor , 1842
  • Landscape in the Dünnenbruch near Gräfrath , 1843
  • Nesselrath Castle , 1843
  • Deer Hunt , 1843
  • Dutch winter landscape , 1845
  • The Haarlem Sea by Moonlight , 1845
  • Doktorsburg , pen and ink drawing in watercolors, 1846
  • Optician Rudolf Franz von Brosy , oil paint on canvas, 58 × 43 cm, ca.1850
  • Dr. Louis de Leuw , oil paint on canvas 89 × 68 cm (catalog raisonné no.145), ca.1855
  • Winter landscape with game , 1869
  • Self-portrait , 1882
  • The Ebernburg near Bad Munster am Stein, opposite the burning tree castle
  • Return of the hay cart

literature

  • Leeuw, Friedrich August de . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 858 f.
  • Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century . Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4 , p. 743.
  • Bernd Fischer, Heinz-Uwe Prichert: Friedrich August de Leuw . Bergischer Geschichtsverein Solingen, Solingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-92562-606-7 .
  • Bernd Fischer: The landscape painter Friedrich August de Leuw, 1817−1888. Commemorative exhibition on the 100th anniversary of death in Düsseldorf, Koblenz, Manderscheid and Solingen . German Blade Museum, Solingen 1988.

Web links

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. ↑ Entry on Neandertal (Neanderthal, "Rocks") in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Friedrich de Leuw ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal galerie-paffrath.de , accessed on March 27, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galerie-paffrath.de
  4. ↑ de Leuw - Name und Familie , website in the portal pdeleuw.de , accessed on March 27, 2016
  5. ↑ 1820−1866 family seat of Friedrich-Herrmann de Leuw , website in the portal schloss-gruenewald.de , accessed on March 27, 2016
  6. ↑ Heinz-Uwe Prichert, Bernd Fischer: The landscape painter Friedrich August de Leuw 1817–1888 . Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen (Ed.), 1888, p. 148
  7. ↑ Bernd Fischer: The landscape painter Friedrich August de Leuw (1817-1888) - On the opening of the memorial exhibition in the German Blade Museum in Solingen on September 11, 1988 . In: Die Heimat , 5/1989, p. 35
  8. ↑ Original drawing : Self-portrait by Friedrich August de Leuw , data sheet in the portal deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de , accessed on March 27, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Leuw, Friedrich August de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and vedute painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Gräfrath near Solingen
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1888
Place of death Dusseldorf