Heinrich Lossow
Heinrich Lossow (born March 10, 1843 in Munich , † May 19, 1897 in Schleissheim ) was a German genre painter , draftsman and illustrator .
life and work
Lossow was the son of the sculptor Arnold Hermann Lossow . His brothers were the animal painter Friedrich Lossow and the history painter Carl Lossow .
Lossow received his first artistic lessons from his father. Through this he was - together with his brother Friedrich - a student of Karl Theodor von Piloty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Later he made some study trips to France and Italy.
From these trips he brought back many impressions and sketches, which then became the basis for many of his pictures in the studio. Lossow leaned some of his works on the Rococo , which were considered “piquant” or pornographic at the time. A loyal servant of his wife , a portfolio with eight erotic etchings , he signed on the plate with the pseudonym Gaston Ferran, in Paris around 1890. Lossow was also an illustrator for several publishers a. a. active for works by Shakespeare , Goethe and Schiller . One of the better known works was Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor .
In the last years of his life, Lossow was responsible for the painting gallery there as a curator at Schleißheim Palace .
The painter Heinrich Lossow died on May 19, 1897 in Schleissheim at the age of 54.
Works (selection)
- Triomphe de Cupidon. 12 dessins érotiques , 1881.
- The Sphinx and the Poet after Heinrich Heine
- Musical entertainment
- honeymoon
- The cleaning lady
- The surprised shepherdess
- Cabal and love , illustrations
Works (selection) Faithful servant of his wife
literature
- Lossow, Heinrich . 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. 404 .
Web links
- The Nude in Art History: Heinrich Lossow (1843–1897, German) , on conchigliadivenere.wordpress.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erotika: Lossow, Heinrich (pseudonym: Gaston Ferran). A faithful servant to his wife. ( the-saleroom.com , accessed July 16, 2016).
- ↑ Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Illustrations by Heinrich Lossow for Schiller's “Kabale und Liebe” ( goethezeitportal.de ), accessed on July 16, 2016.
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SURNAME | Lossow, Heinrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferran, Gaston (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter and draftsman |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1843 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1897 |
Place of death | Schleissheim |