Lawrence Ludlow Cohen

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Lawrence Ludlow Cohen (* 1836 in Charleston , South Carolina ; † 1918 in Kemah , Galveston County , Texas ) was an American genre , landscape , still life and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Cohen was already making an appearance in his hometown as a 13-year-old artist. In the years 1853 to 1855 or 1856 he stayed in Düsseldorf to study painting. Presumably he became a student of Emanuel Leutze . In 1854 and 1855 he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . Few genre paintings have survived from the time after his return to the United States. As a soldier, he took on the side of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War in part, 1861 in the immediate vicinity of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard .

literature

  • Anna Wells Rutledge: Artists in the Life of Charleston. Through Colony and State, From Restoration to Reconstruction . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 39, Part 2, Philadelphia 1949, p. 190 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 428
  2. ^ Sabine Morgen: The broadcast of the Düsseldorf painting school to America in the 19th century. Düsseldorf paintings in America and American painters in Düsseldorf . Göttingen Contributions to Art History, Volume 2, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7675-3059-1 , p. 391
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Lawrence Ludlow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American genre, landscape, still life and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH 1918
Place of death Kemah , Galveston County , Texas