Leon Lauffs

Leonhard Lauffs , also Léon Lauffs (born October 24, 1883 in Dürler near Sankt Vith , Rhine Province ; † July 10, 1956 in Düsseldorf ), was a German sculptor , graphic artist and painter .

Life

Dreimädelbrunnen , 1914/1915 (together with Hermann vom Endt ), original location in front of the Düsseldorf State House ,today on Kaiserswerther Strasse in Düsseldorf- Golzheim

Dreimädelbrunnen in front of the State House in Düsseldorf (1915)

Lauffs attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts from 1900 to 1901 , then the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1911 . He went on study trips to Italy and Belgium and settled in Düsseldorf, where he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . Lauffs mainly created portrait busts, figurines, fountains and grave monuments, such as the Dreimädelbrunnen in 1914/1915 . He also excelled as a still life painter . In 1911 he was represented at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf with a girl figure , in 1913 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition with a female bronze head , and in 1938 at the Great German Art Exhibition with a bronze Eva .

Lauffs, Leon . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Sixth volume, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1922, p. 172.
Lauffs, Leon . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 436 .
Lauffs, Léon . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . EA Seemann, Volume 3, Leipzig 1956, p. 183.
Lauffs, Léon . In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . KG Saur, Munich.

↑ Heribert Wolf: Dreimädelbrunnen . In: Jan Wellem , issue 2/2015, p. 9 ( PDF ).
↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 11, 2019.
^ Hermann Board : The Great Art Exhibition Düsseldorf 1911 . In: Art for All . Issue 24 (September 15, 1911), p. 564 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lauffs, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lauffs, Leonhard (full name); Lauffs, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor, graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dürler near Sankt Vith , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH	July 10, 1956
Place of death	Dusseldorf