Louis Preller

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Karl August Louis Preller (born March 17, 1822 in Eisenberg (Thuringia) , † May 9, 1901 in Weimar ) was a German marine and landscape painter . He is the builder of the studio house named after him in Weimar.

Preller learned porcelain painting in his hometown Eisenberg. From 1838 he was a student in Weimar with his uncle Friedrich Preller the Elder at the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar. He later worked in Varel in the Oldenburg region and in Leipzig until he settled in Weimar around 1870. In Leipzig he was a pupil of Gustav Jäger . His works have been shown in exhibitions in Konstanz , Hamburg and Weimar. Two of his works were shown at the world exhibition in Philadelphia ( USA ) in 1876 .

Works (selection)

  • Grove of trees in front of a ditch
  • A forest in Thuringia
  • Herring fishing on the North Sea coast
  • Lifeboat on the coast of Norway
  • Autumn morning in the forest
  • Fog on the north coast of Norway

literature

  • Preller, Louis. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 322 ( archive.org ).
  • Louis Preller . In: German Department. Official catalog. World Exhibition in Philadelphia 1876. R. v. Decker, Berlin 1876, p. 96 , left column below ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Preller, Louis Karl August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 336 .
  • Hugo Preller: The family table of the painter of the Weimar Odyssey, Friedrich Preller . In: The Thuringian clan. Messages from the Thuringian Society for Kinship Studies . 3rd year, 1937, p. 65-74 .
  • Walther Scheidig: The history of the Weimar painting school 1860-1900 . Böhlau, 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preller, Louis. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 322 ( archive.org ).
  2. ^ Emmanuel Bénézit: Preller, Louis . In: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . E. Gründ, Paris 1924, p. 532 (French, text archive - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Preller, Louis . In: Exposition générale des Beaux-arts . C. Lelong, Brussels 1875, p. 122 (French, text archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Preller, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preller, Karl August Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenberg (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1901
Place of death Weimar