Konrad Lessing

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Konrad Ludwig Lessing , also Conrad Ludwig Lessing , (born April 23, 1852 in Düsseldorf , † March 7, 1916 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Konrad Lessing was the son of the history painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880) and Ida Heuser (1817–1880). Among his siblings were Bertha Lessing (1844–1914), the sculptor Otto Lessing (1846–1912) and the portrait and landscape painter Heinrich Lessing (1856–1930). He was a great-great-nephew of the poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .

Lessing received his first painting lessons from his father. Later he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude , Wilhelm Riefstahl and Anton von Werner at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and the University of the Arts in Berlin .

In 1873 he made his exhibition debut in Karlsruhe , after which Lessing traveled to the Rhineland , the Eifel , Bohemia , Franconian Switzerland and the Harz Mountains . From 1880 he lived in Berlin . In 1896 he received a small gold medal there at the International Art Exhibition .

Works (selection)

  • Harz landscape with castle ruins

  • On the shores of Lake Garda

  • Gypsum rocks at the Neuhofer pond

  • In the evening

Lessing mainly painted landscapes, preferring motifs from the Harz and the Eifel. His early, often atmospheric, works were more strongly influenced by the romantic tradition; his later works increasingly correspond to the plein air painting, which his teacher Gude encouraged , in which an exaggeration of the landscape was unnecessary.

  • Ulmener Maar near Ulmen , 1912.
    Exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
  • The Lilienstein, Saxon Switzerland
  • River landscape in summer , 1910
  • Landscape with a stream lined with trees
  • Mountain landscape with a castle , 1914
  • Königssee with St. Bartholomä , 1906
  • Landscape with trees in the sunset , 1902
  • Eifel landscape with flock of sheep , 1904
  • Eiffel Landscape , 1885
  • Rocky slope with pine
  • Walkenried in the southern Harz

literature

  • Arend Buchholtz: The story of the Lessing family. v. Holten, Berlin 1909, Volume 2, pp. 350-351.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 .
  • Leo Mülfarth: Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters. Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1987.
  • Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker : General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1907–1950.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . Volume 8, ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006. p. 903.
  • A checklist of painters from 1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library. Courtauld Institute of Art, Mansell, London 1978. ISBN 0-72010-718-0 . P. 175.

Web links

Commons : Konrad Lessing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Paffrath , Martina Sitt , Imke Valentien : Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819-1918. Haach-Murtfeldt. Galerie G. Paffrath, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Bruckmann, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-76543-010-2 .
  2. ^ Conrad Lessing painting. ( Memento from November 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bares für Rares , objects from April 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lessing, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lessing, Konrad Ludwig (full name); Lessing, Conrad Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1916
Place of death Berlin