Louis Spangenberg
Louis Spangenberg (born May 11, 1824 in Hamburg , † October 17, 1893 in Berlin ) was a German architectural painter .
Life
Spangenberg was a son of the Hamburg doctor Georg August Spangenberg . The painter Gustav Spangenberg was his brother, the politician Wilhelm Spangenberg was his stepbrother.
He first studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic under Friedrich Eisenlohr , where he joined the Teutonia fraternity in the winter semester of 1843/44 . He later moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and in 1848 turned to architecture and landscape painting, in Munich with E. Kirchner and in Brussels. After lengthy study trips through France, Great Britain, Italy and Greece, he settled in Berlin in 1857. His landscapes, the motifs of which are partly borrowed from Northern Germany, partly Greece and Italy, are characterized by a grand and strict conception with a tendency to stylize and mostly in a serious mood.
In the new building of the Technical University of Charlottenburg , he executed a series of wall paintings with famous monuments of antiquity.
Louis Spangenberg died in Berlin in 1893 at the age of 69 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches , where two years earlier his brother Gustav had also found his final resting place. Both graves have not been preserved.
Work (selection)
- Acrocorinth
- Acropolis of Athens
- Farm in Oldenburg
- The Regenstein in the Harz Mountains
- North German oak forest
- Temple of Neptune and Basilica in Paestum
- Theater of Herodes Atticus in Athens
- Motif from the Engadine
- Peat bog in Holstein
literature
- Exhibition of the artistic estate of Louis Spangenberg in the Royal National Gallery. Mittler publishing house, Berlin 1894.
- Spangenberg, Louis . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 328-329 .
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 648–650.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 217.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spangenberg, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spangenberg, Loui |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1893 |
| Place of death | Berlin |