Ludwig Haach
Ludwig Haach (born November 3, 1813 in Dresden , † March 29, 1842 in Rome ) was a German porcelain , decoration , history and portrait painter as well as a draftsman and engraver .
Life
Haach attended the drawing school in Meißen from 1826 , where Ludwig Richter taught from 1828 . In 1830 he went to study painting at the Dresden Art Academy . From 1834 he worked temporarily as a flower painter at the Meissen porcelain factory . He also created chalk drawings with biblical motifs, portraits and copperplate engravings for the Saxon Art Association . In 1835 he decorated several rooms of the Japanese Palace with tempera paintings. In 1836 he designed a room in the house of the Leipzig bookseller L. Barth with an encaustic painting . In the same year he received a scholarship from the Saxon King. It enabled him to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student of the history painters Wilhelm Schadow and Theodor Hildebrandt from 1837 to 1840 . His painting Elisier Leads Rebekah to Isaac (1840) is considered a major work of the Düsseldorf student days. With his college friend Alexander Heubel he moved to Rome in autumn 1840 , where he was chairman of the Ponte Molle Society for the period 1841/1842 . In 1842 he began the painting The Three Kings Before Herod . Due to his death from "excessive exertion" allegedly caused, he could no longer complete it. Haach was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. His tomb there has been preserved.
literature
- Ludwig Haach . In: Andreas Andresen : The German painter-Radirer (Peintres-Engraveurs) of the nineteenth century , according to their lives and works. 1. Vol., Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig 1872, pp. 44ff., Digitized .
- Haach, Ludwig . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 438., digitized .
- Ernst Sigismund : Haach, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 381 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Haach, Ludwig. In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094654-8 , volume 4, p. 295, digitized .
Web links
- Ludwig Haach. Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Portrait of Haach, Ludwig (1813–1842), painter. Portrait of the painter Ludwig Haag by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein , July 15, 1841 in Rome, website in the portal skd-online.de ( Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden )
Individual evidence
- ↑ See nos. 4538–4540 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 228
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haach, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German porcelain, decoration, history and portrait painters as well as draftsmen and engravers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1842 |
| Place of death | Rome |