Johann Adolf Lasinsky

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Johann Adolf Lasinsky (born October 16, 1808 in Simmern / Hunsrück , † September 6, 1871 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter and draftsman of the Düsseldorf School , known for his romantic views of the Rhine . He was the older brother of the painter August Gustav Lasinsky .

Life

Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein , 1828

Lasinsky comes from the old Polish and German nobility, his father was treasurer at the court of Stanislaus II August Poniatowski in Warsaw and came to Germany as a refugee from the revolution. His mother was the Rhenish poet Anna Maria Lasinsky , great niece of the Vice Chancellor of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg , Georg Joseph Freiherr von Knapp .

Lasinsky attended the Royal Prussian High School in Koblenz until he was 17 , then devoted himself to architecture, but from 1827, following his inclination and talent, to painting, which he studied at the Royal Prussian Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1829 to 1837 Lasinksy was a student in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class there . With the artists Caspar Scheuren , Arnold Schulten , August Becker and others, Lasinsky is one of the Düsseldorf landscape painters who worked according to Schirmer's line. Lasinsky was close friends with the painter Carl Friedrich Lessing of the same age , who also had a strong influence in painting.

As a result of his national success, Lasinsky received an invitation to move to Berlin. But he refused these as well as later, repeated honorable appointments to St. Petersburg and returned to Koblenz after his marriage in 1837, where he executed several large pictures on behalf of the Grand Duke-Heir to the throne of Russia and later Emperor Alexander II had to repeat the "bottleneck with gypsies with evening lighting" for various courtyards and galleries at home and abroad. He later moved to Cologne, where he a. a. painted the panorama of the city. From 1850 he lived again permanently in Düsseldorf. Here he first completed a large "Dutch landscape", which was very popular, and then executed a cycle of large paintings on the order of Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern , depicting views from his hereditary lands, which were given as gifts to Portugal and Romania. After the death of his hopeful son Paul, a talented painter, in 1865, he was seized by a deep hypochondria that increasingly alienated him from life and art and clouded his last years with excruciating suffering.

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In addition to Lessing and Schirmer, Lasinsky was one of the most outstanding painters in the field of landscape in Düsseldorf. He was already successful with his first pictures. Her motifs were mostly taken from the wild and romantic rocky areas of the Eifel, where he painted several studies with Lessing. His “Elz Castle on the Moselle in evening lighting”, “The Oberstein an der Nahe” (repeated in 1884 and 1836) and “An old waiting tower on the frozen lake by moonlight” (1835) were particularly praised. His “Wasserfall bei Pyrmont” at the great Berlin exhibition in 1835, however, made a particularly good impression. Lasinsky revealed a poetic conception in all of his works, perhaps as an inheritance from his mother, who was best known as a poet (poems by AM Lasinsky, b. v. Knapp, Koblenz 1827); But he always remained true to the traditions of the Rhine romanticism, which was in full bloom when he entered the public domain. Some of his paintings are reminiscent of the fantastic landscapes Lessing from his first period, but all are characterized by the ability to give the object a heightened effect through an interesting characteristic mood.

Prints after his works

Lasinsky's work was immensely popular in that it was disseminated in a variety of ways in prints using various techniques. For example in the copperplate engravings by the Swiss Rudolf Bodmer and Christian Meichelt or in art print books, some of which are listed below, which were digitized by the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Aquatint by Christian Meichelt

Illustrations (selection)

literature

  • Moritz Blanckarts :  Lasinsky, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 732.
  • Wolfgang Müller : Düsseldorf artist from the past 25 years . Leipzig 1854.
  • Rudolf Wiegmann : The royal art academy in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1856.
  • Moritz Blanckarts: Düsseldorf artist necrologist for the past 10 years . Stuttgart 1877.
  • Lasinsky, Johann Adolf . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 813.
  • Adolf Jungjohann: Koblenz painter a hundred years ago , Koblenz 1929, [in it in detail on Johann Adolf Lasinsky (1808 - 1871) on p. 37–38, then on his brother August Gustav Lasinsky (1811–1870) on p. 38–39]
  • Anton Neugebauer, Norbert Suhr (eds.): Burgenromantik - representations of the brothers Lasinsky and Lindenschmitt , (Landesmuseum Mainz, Graphische Sammlung, 10), Mainz 1999, pp. 208-227.
  • Hans Joachim Bodenbach: 200 years of romanticism on the Rhine - VUES DU BORDS DU RHIN - views of the Rhine from the publisher Karl Bädeker (Baedeker) in Koblenz . Contributions to Rhine customer studies (Rhein-Museum Koblenz), issue 54/2002, Koblenz 2002, pp. 26–55, 30 fig.

Web links

Commons : Johann Adolf Lasinsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Further engravings after JA Lasinsky

Commons : Rudolf Bodmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Engravings after Lasinsky

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Lasinsky, Johann Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasinsky, Johann Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmern / Hunsrück
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1871
Place of death Dusseldorf