Louis Asher

Louis Asher ( actually Ludwig Julius Asher , born June 26, 1804 in Hamburg ; † March 7, 1878 ibid) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and the Hamburg School and a sculptor .

Life

Tomb of the Asher family in the open air. Hedge garden , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Asher came from a Jewish family who converted in 1810. His parents were Ludewig Matthias Asher (* 1769 in Lübben ), businessman and banker in Hamburg, and Anna Mariane Hedwig Philipson (* around 1772 in Altona), granddaughter of Alexander David .

Asher began his training with Gerdt Hardorff (1769–1864), who gave drawing lessons at the Patriotic Society , and with Leo Lehmann (1782–1859), Rudolf Lehmann's father . From 1821 he studied at the Academy in Dresden together with other Hamburg artists such as Carl Julius Milde , Julius Oldach and Hans Heinrich Porth , with whom he had a lifelong friendship and whom he portrayed in 1828. Even Ernst Ferdinand Oehme and Ernst Rietschel belonged to the circle. Then Asher went to the Düsseldorf Academy under Peter Cornelius . He went to Munich with Cornelius in 1825 and assisted him in painting the Glyptothek .

After a stay in Hamburg, where, among other things, he designed the large Philippi tomb in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , he went on a study trip to Italy with his friend and artist colleague Erwin Speckter for three years from 1832 . In 1838/39 he made another trip to Italy together with Wilhelm Kaulbach , who had a strong influence on him. Conversely, Asher was also an intimate critic of Kaulbach. His works hang in the Kunsthalle Hamburg , as well as museums in Lübeck and Stockholm . In 1879 an exhibition took place in Hamburg. He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

His brother was the doctorate lawyer and publicist Carl Wilhelm Asher . His great niece was the portrait painter Helene von der Leyen .

Works (selection)

Italian peasant family , 1834
Portrait of the pianist Jenny Lind , 1845
Miss Fehling with her children , around 1867
Picture of a child
The artist in his studio

Exhibitions (selection)

2019: Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered (April 12 to July 14), Hamburger Kunsthalle

literature

Kaulbach-Archiv III, letter from Ludwig Asher to Wilhelm Kaulbach from Nuremberg, September 26, 1835
Family table Asher (PDF)
Emil Benezé : Asher, Louis (Julius Ludwig) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 179 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Asher, Julius Louis . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 1, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, p. 35 f.

Web links

Commons : Louis Asher - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ last address “Asher, L., Maler, Catharinenstr. 28 I “, 1878. In: New address book of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg at the Hamburg State Library.

personal data
SURNAME	Asher, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Asher, Ludwig Julius (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1878
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] st address “Asher, L., Maler, Catharinenstr. 28 I “, 1878. In: New address book of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg at the Hamburg State Library.