Jean Lulvès

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Visitors in front of the monkey house

Jean Lulvès (born November 26, 1833 in Mulhouse , † January 8, 1889 in Berlin ) was a Franco-German genre painter . He mainly created decorative works for large rooms, for example for the coronation hall in the Moscow Kremlin and the Krause bank in Berlin, and often used historical motifs, specializing in the 16th to 18th centuries.

Life and works

The Krause bank no longer exists.

Lulvès initially earned his living as an engineer in France, Belgium and Germany. From 1862 he studied with Carl Steffeck in Berlin, from 1863/64 he worked for Baron Moller on the island of Ösel. From there he went to Moscow and took part in the decoration of the Alexander Nevsky Hall in the Kremlin. In 1865 he stayed in Rome. Then he returned to Berlin. Here he took over the design of the ballroom of the Krause bank with wax paint pictures. From 1862 he regularly sent genre pictures to the academy exhibitions.

His pictures include the painter Clouet in the Louvre , the secret reunion , the murder of Riccio , the historical site of the murder , courtly scene (homage to the young Infante), a young man playing music , a lioness with a young boy . The puppets (Museum Mulhouse i. E.), Petit Lever (City Museum Koenigsberg). The depiction of zoo visitors in front of the monkey house in Berlin is often reproduced . He also worked as an illustrator for A. Traeger's Deutsche Kunst , Illustrierte Zeitung (Leipzig), Lipperheides Illustrierte Frauenzeitung , Schorers Familienblatt , Daheim , Über Land und Meer and others.

Jean Lulvès died in Berlin in 1889 at the age of 55 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, his remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

family

He was the son of the copper engraver and etcher Antoine Frėdėric Lulvès, who came from Hanover and who had moved to Rouen. He was married to Margarete Lulvès († 1906). His son Dr. Jean Lulvès (1866–1928) worked as an archivist, historian and genealogist and wrote a number of historical publications.

Publications

  • Sheets for costume studies, historical and folk costumes , new series, second issue (13th - 24th sheet), Berlin, Franz Lipperheide, 1876, 1st edition, with 12 colored steel engravings after watercolors by CE Doepler , Jean Lulves and Franz Meyerheim , with descriptive text

literature

  • Adolf Rosenberg: The Berlin School of Painting 1819–1879, Berlin 1879.
  • Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon, Leipzig 1882, p. 344.
  • Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters Works of the 19th Century, Volume I, 2. Dresden 1891.
  • Thieme-Becker: General Lexicon of Fine Arts, Vol. 23, Leipzig 1992, p. 462/463.

Web links

Commons : Jean Lulvès  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.van-ham.com/en/database-archive/datenbank/jean-lulves/hoefische-szene.html
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.openartcollection.com
  3. ↑ http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/jean-lulves-german,-1833-1889-8jfawv86c4-0-m-by333867fi
  4. ↑ http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=67047#Lulv%C3%A8s , here, in contrast to the other sources, the year of birth is given as 1834.
  5. ^ Illustrated catalog of the international art exhibition in the Royal Glaspalast in Munich 1883, 4th edition Munich 1883
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 305, 473.
personal data
SURNAME Lulvès, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1889
Place of death Berlin