Leopold Venus
Leopold Venus (full name August Leopold Venus ; born June 14, 1843 in Dresden , † December 23, 1886 in Pirna ) was a German painter and illustrator.
Life
Leopold Venus attended the Annenschule in Dresden . He then studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden from 1857 , and from around 1859 learned landscape drawing from Ludwig Richter .
Since 1861 Venus worked in Julius Hübner 's history painting studio in Dresden . A scholarship enabled him to travel to Rome in the fall of 1866 , where he spent a few months with Viktor Paul Mohn . Venus received a travel grant in 1868 and visited southern Italy and especially the area around Rome between January and October 1869 .
Leopold Venus dealt with landscape and history painting, later he devoted himself to book design and illustration of books. He also provided illustrations for the German youth. Youth and family library .
He illustrated Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel “ Elective Affinities ”, “New Fairy Tales Conceived by a Mother” by Amélie Godin and “Hellmund und Helläuglein” by Heinrich Jäde . Venus mainly worked for the publisher Carl Flemming in Glogau ,
Venus also created several hundred woodcuts in collaboration with the Dresden Atelier for woodcutting under the direction of Hugo Bürkner .
After his marriage, Venus moved to Düsseldorf , but soon returned to Dresden. In 1877 he suffered a collapse and was taken to the Pirna-Sonnenstein sanatorium , but was soon released again.
Venus became addicted to alcohol, after the marital problems and the death of his wife he was returned to the mental institution, where he died of a stroke.
Web links
- Fedor Bochow: Leopold Venus . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Icollector
- The Saleroom
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venus, Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Venus, August Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1886 |
| Place of death | Pirna |