Léopold Lowenstam

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Portrait of Leopold Löwenstam by Lawrence Alma-Tadema , 1883
Etching After the storm by Leopold Lowenstam, 1880, Philadelphia Museum of Art , after the painting After the storm of Jozef Israëls of 1858, located in the Stedelijk Museum is
Etching An Apodyterion - The Changing Room of a Roman Ladies Bath , 1886, by Leopold Lowenstam after a painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Léopold Henry Lowenstam , also Leopold Löwenstam (born February 17, 1842 in Düsseldorf , † May 29, 1898 in Three Bridges , Crawley District , West Sussex ) was a Dutch metal engraver and eraser who also worked in London and Stockholm .

life and work

Léopold Lowenstam was the son of Heinrich Lowenstam (born September 25, 1815 in Lisse , † July 17, 1887 in Amsterdam ) and his wife Emily, b. Lee , widowed van Gelder (born March 6, 1808 in London, † August 18, 1883 in Amsterdam) was born on February 4, 1842 in Düsseldorf. He studied from 1857 to 1864 at the Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 1858 he was given an honorable mention for drawing and painting and a large bronze medal for his engraving , in 1859 a small bronze medal in the category of drawing from plaster fragments , in 1860 an honorable certificate for drawing, in 1861 a large silver medal for his engraving and in 1862 a small gold one Medal for his engravings as well as a commendable mention for drawing and painting . Since the early 1860s he devoted himself to art engraving. From 1871, at the request of the Swedish government, he founded an eraser school in Stockholm and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Wasa Order on May 11, 1875 . A well-known student of the school was the painter Carl Larsson , he took lessons there in 1875. In 1873 Lowenstam moved to London, where from 1879 to 1897 he took part almost regularly every year in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington House .

In London art magazine The Art Journal prints were published by him, including prints by the paintings My kids ( My Children ) 1877, Architecture in Ancient Rome ( Architecture in Ancient Rome ) and sculpture in ancient Rome ( Sculpture in Ancient Rome ) in 1878 by Lawrence Alma -Tadema and priestly admonition ( Priestly admonition ) in 1879 by Carl Schloesser and The traitor ( The traitor ) 1880 th of Herman Frederik Carel Kate and travelers bohemians ( Bohemian Wayfarers ) 1880 by Louis Gallait . Approx. In 1890 he created an engraving showing Alexandra, Princess of Wales . Other artists whose paintings he engraved included Rosa Bonheur , Jozef Israëls and Edward Poynter . One of his prints, a portrait of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby , is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Other engravings and etchings by him can be found, for example, in the Victoria and Albert Museum , the British Museum , the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , the Amsterdam Museum , the Philadelphia Museum of Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library . In 1880 he was awarded first prize for his work at the world exhibition in Sydney , and in 1883 at the international colonial and export exhibition in Amsterdam, where paintings and graphics were also shown, a silver medal in the engraving and lithography department , for two Works based on Lawrence Alma-Tadema's works Herbst and Das Erste Mal , as well as a work based on Jozef Israëls.

On October 12, 1879, Lowenstam and Alice Search, the nanny of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and his wife Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema had a son. On September 13, 1880, the daughter Millie followed . Until then, the family's address was 9 Titchfield Terrace Regent's Park 4 , but in 1891 it was 4 Wells Road North Gate , London. In the announcement of the daughter's birth in a Dutch newspaper, Lowenstam's partner was named Alice Lowenstam on September 28, 1880 . Both could have been married at this point.

In 1883, Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted a portrait showing Lowenstam working on a metal plate, looking at the viewer. The motif of the image over the metal plate, the Lowenstam copied here, is shown only vaguely reminiscent of the composition ago to Lawrence Alma-Tadema's A statement ( A Declaration ) in 1883 from the British Museum, but also something to te amo, ama me from 1881 from the Fries Museum . Lawrence Alma-Tadema exhibited the portrait with two other portraits in the Grosvenor Gallery in 1884, but exhibited another painting at the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition that same year. It is said to have been shown for the last time in Liverpool in 1913 . The painting has long been in the possession of the von Léopold Lowenstam family. Recognized again in September 2016 through the BBC broadcast Antiques Roadshow (similar to the German TV programs Kunst + Krempel and Lieb & Teuer ), it is now shown in a traveling exhibition. It will first be shown in the Fries Museum from October 1, 2016.

In 1896 the Lowenstams lived in Three Bridges in Crawley District in what is now West Sussex. After a long and painful suffering, Léopold Lowenstam died there on May 29, 1898. His brother Herman Lowenstam, also Löwenstam (* 1840) also made etchings and engravings.

literature

Web links

Commons : Léopold Lowenstam  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Works by Leopold Löwenstam in the Amsterdam Museum ( enter Löwenstam, Leopold as search term)
  • Works by Leopold Löwenstam in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Works by Leopold Löwenstam in the British Museum
  • Works by Leopold Löwenstam in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Works by Leopold Löwenstam in the New York Public Library
  • Works by Leopold Lowenstam in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Works by Leopold Lowenstam in Standen House and Garden, West Sussex ( Arts and Crafts family house with Morris & Co. interior)
  • Work by Leopold Lowenstam in the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Work by Léopold Lowenstam in the National Portrait Gallery in London
  • Leopold Löwenstam in the RKD artist database

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After the storm ( memento of September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) by Jozef Israëls, Stedelijk Museum
  2. ↑ Apodyterion by Lawrence Alma Tadema
  3. ^ Announcement of the death of L. Lowenstein from his widow
  4. ^ Announcement of the relatives on the death of Heinrich Lowenstam.
  5. ^ Announcement of the marriage of L. Lowenstam's parents
  6. ^ Announcement of the death of L. Lowenstam's mother
  7. ↑ List of the winners (Dutch) in the Algemeen Handelsblad , July 30, 1858
  8. ↑ List of the winners (Dutch) in the Nieuw Amsterdamsch Handels- En Effectenblad of July 1, 1859 (right line below, his brother H. Löwenstam is mentioned in front of him)
  9. ^ List of the winners (Dutch) in Nieuw Amsterdamsch Handels- en Effectenblad , July 21, 1860
  10. ↑ List of the award winners (Dutch) in Nieuw Amsterdamsch Handels- en Effectenblad , June 13, 1861
  11. ↑ List of the winners (Dutch) in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant , July 12, 1862
  12. ^ Robert Verhoogt: Art in Reproduction: Nineteenth-century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israëls and Ary Scheffer , Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2007, p. 111. ISBN 9789053569139 ( digitized from Google Books)
  13. ^ Announcement on the award of the medal (Dutch), Nederlandsche Staatscourant of May 13, 1875
  14. ^ Kronologi, in: Nationalmuseum Stockholm (Ed.): Carl Larsson. En utställning ingående i Nationalmuseums 200-årsjubileum, Stockholm 1992, pp. 341–344, p. 341. ISBN 91-7100-423-8
  15. ↑ Prints (not original prints) by Lowenstam, mostly from The Art Journal magazine
  16. ^ Note on the award ceremony in Sydney, Het Nieuws van den Dag , August 27, 1880
  17. ^ Report (Dutch) on the medal awarding of the exhibition in Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad , September 17, 1883
  18. ^ Works at the exhibition, Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad , July 26, 1883
  19. ^ Announcement of the birth of the son, Het Nieuws van den Dag , October 15, 1879
  20. ↑ Announcement of the daughter's birth, Het Nieuws van den Dag , September 28, 1880
  21. ↑ A statement ( A Declaration ), British Museum
  22. ↑ Amo te, ama me ( Memento from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Fries Museum
  23. ↑ pp. 77 and 78 in Percy Cross Standings Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Cassell & Co, 1870
  24. ↑ p. 157 in English Art in 1884
  25. ↑ p. 28 , The Royal Academy of Arts; A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904 , Part 1, 1905
  26. ↑ Article on Lawrence Alma-Tadema's discovery of the portrait of Löwenstam , The Telegraph, September 24, 2016
  27. ↑ Mention of painful suffering (2nd column above)
  28. ^ Works by Herman Löwenstam in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
personal data
SURNAME Lowenstam, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstam, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch metal engraver
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1898 or May 29, 1898
Place of death Three Bridges , Sussex, UK