Louis Wallée
Louis Wallée (also Ludwig Wallée, Louis Vallée, * 1773 in Berleburg , † March 12, 1838 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian landscape painter.
Life
Wallée came from a French immigrant family.
He came to Salzburg around 1795 and stayed there for life. After training as a painter in Berchtesgaden , he went on study trips to the Salzkammergut and Upper Austria .
He created landscapes and cityscapes, mostly in watercolor . Many of them served as templates for etchings and copper engravings . Wallée painted a. a. Views of the villages of Suben , Engelhartszell and Mondsee in Upper Austria, the waterfalls near Golling and Gastein , and the Königsee in Berchtesgaden. In 1799 he painted the most beautiful views of Berchtesgaden, which appeared in the subscription to the “Salzburg Intelligence Journal”.
His works came to the imperial and princely art collections, also in France and England.
In Boissy-Saint-Léger and Sucy-en-Brie streets were named after him.
literature
- Franz Tschischka: Art and antiquity in the Austrian imperial state represented geographically : Vienna 1836, Fr.Beck: p. 406.
- Wallée, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 97 .
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wallée, Ludwig . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 52nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1885, p. 249 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . Vol. 21, p. 102 (digitized version)
Web links
- Louis Wallée. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wallée, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wallée, Ludwig; Vallée, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Berleburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1838 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |