Hans August Lassen

Hans August Lassen (born December 12, 1857 in Hadersleben , Duchy of Schleswig ; † 1938 in Ratingen , Düsseldorf-Mettmann district ) was a German-Danish portrait , still life and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

An exciting game , 1898

Lassen attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1881 to 1887. Peter Janssen the Elder , Hugo Crola and Heinrich Lauenstein were his teachers there. He was noted in the Academy's student lists as "very talented". It was also recorded that he was forced to provide for his own living. Therefore, he only appeared irregularly in the class for a few semesters. Lassen specialized in the representation of tavern scenes, wine tastings, men's and game rounds; Also known is an oil painting (knee, standing) of Prince Otto von Bismarck from 1885 . Lassen lived in Düsseldorf until 1910 , then in Ratingen.

literature

Lassen, Hans August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 409 .

Web links

Commons : Hans August Lassen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Hans August Lassen , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Hans August Lassen , auction results on the artnet .de portal

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 434
↑ Cf. nos. 8361–8368 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.com ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Lassen, Hans August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Danish portrait, still life and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hadersleben , Duchy of Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH	1938
Place of death	Ratingen , Düsseldorf-Mettmann district

[1] 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. 434

[2] Cf. nos. 8361–8368 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.com ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )