Johann Lorenz Rugendas

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Johann Lorenz Rugendas junior (born February 5, 1775 in Augsburg ; † December 19, 1826 there ) was a German history painter and art publisher.

Life

He did an apprenticeship with his father and from 1784 to 1793 at the Imperial City Art Academy in Augsburg. From 1799 he took over the family art publisher due to the death of his father. From 1804 he was a teacher at the Augsburg Art and Drawing School, the successor to the Imperial City Art Academy. He became its Protestant director in 1811. From 1820 to 1824 he was the second director of the “royal art school”. He died two years later. His son Moritz Rugendas also became a well-known painter.

Artistic creation

He mainly worked as an illustrator of picture sheets on military subjects, based on the tradition of the great ancestor Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder. With a series of 52 depictions of the Napoleonic wars, he created a nationally important cycle. Whenever possible, he traveled to the battlefields himself because he tried to present the locations in an original manner. Instead of the mezzotint technique , he used the aquatint developed from etching in 1760 . However, he was not sure of his ability with his first works and had it carried out by other artists.

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personal data
SURNAME Rugendas, Johann Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rugendas, Johann Lorenz junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter and art publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1826
Place of death augsburg