Louis Antoine Carolus
Louis Antoine Carolus (born December 25, 1814 in Antwerp ; † April 12, 1865 there ) was a Belgian genre painter and etcher.
Carolus studied with Jakob Josef Eeckhout and Ferdinand de Braekeleer in Antwerp and from 1831 to 1834 with Eugène Lepoittevin in Paris . From 1835 he worked as a freelance artist in The Hague and from 1836 in Antwerp . He devoted himself to historical genre painting. The genre scenes shown mostly took place in the times of King Louis XV. instead of.
literature
- Henri Hymans : Carolus, Louis Antoine . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 26 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
Commons : Louis Antoine Carolus - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Louis Antoine Carolus. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carolus, Louis Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian genre painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1865 |
| Place of death | Antwerp |