Gustav Hausmann

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Oil painting: View of the Wetterhorn in the Swiss Alps , dated 1876;
Formerly owned by the Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode, Sotheby's London auction December 17, 2008, no.132

Gustav Hausmann (born July 23, 1827 in Barbis , † April 13, 1899 in Hanover ) was a German painter who mainly created landscape paintings . His specialty were mountain images.

Life

family

Gustav Hausmann was married to Johanne , née Fuess (* 1842 in Moringen , Northeim district; † 1899 in Hanover), with whom he had two daughters, Louise Dorette Karoline , called Lisa (* September 2, 1871) and Martha (* 1878) . Lisa later married the writer Hermann Löns .

Career

Motif from the Lüneburg Heath after sunset , undated oil painting;
Steel auction, Hamburg November 29, 2014, No. 33
Ice skating on frozen water in an unidentified location ;
undated oil painting , signature G. Hausmann, Hanover . Origin and owner unknown

Born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover in the small town of Barbis am Harz , Gustav Hausmann attended high school in Goslar , where his talent for painting was noticed early on. As a result, he received through the mediation of Hanover Künstlerverein a scholarship by the Crown Prince and later King George V. This allowed home from 1845 to 1850 at the Polytechnic School in Hanover at Edmund Koken particular landscape painting study. In 1850 Hausmann went to Munich , where he continued his studies with Albert Zimmermann , Christian Morgenstern and August Seidel .

Gustav Hausmann returned to Hanover in 1856, joined the Hanover Art Association in the same year and quickly rose to become one of the city's most respected painters.

From 1862 to 1865, Hausmann taught the Hanoverian princesses Friederike and Marie . Even after the royal family fled to Gmunden , Austria, as a result of the battle of Langensalza lost for the Kingdom of Hanover and the annexation of the kingdom by Prussia in 1866 , Gustav Hausmann continued to receive painting orders from Queen Marie of Hanover . After 1866 the painter lived withdrawn in Hanover, where he continued to prefer to paint motifs from the Bavarian and Tyrolean Alps and the Harz Mountains. In 1868 he lived at Schlägerstrasse 6 I in Hanover. In 1874 he bought his own house in Hanover in the street Am Bokemahle , according to the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for 1874 the house with the then house number 10a .

In the year Hausmann's death in 1899, the Hannoversche Künstlerverein organized a memorial exhibition for the painter, at which around 160 oil sketches were shown.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Hausmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Holger Grimm: Hausmann, Gustav . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , p. 226.
  2. ↑ a b c Hugo Thielen: Hausmann, (2) Gustav. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Pp. 156-157.
  3. ^ Address book of the royal residence city of Hanover. 1868, p. 282.
  4. ^ Address book, city and business handbook of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for 1873. With the city plan , first section, part II: Street and house directory in alphabetical order of street names with details of the house owners and residents , p. 99; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Hausmann, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Barbis
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1899
Place of death Hanover