Ludwig Schleiden

Ludwig Schleiden (born December 4, 1802 in Aachen , † September 7, 1862 there ) was a German portrait , history and landscape painter .

Live and act

Schleiden was a student of Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné at his drawing school in Aachen and then went to Paris for further studies . Then he worked again in Aachen. His historical picture Die Aachener Gertrudisnacht with the death of Jülich Count Wilhelm IV. , Who was slain during his raid on Aachen from March 16 to 17, 1278, has been handed down in literary terms . Schleiden's most important historical work was lost for a while and was not rediscovered until the beginning of the 1930s by Felix Kuetgens in an art lover's house. The painting had darkened considerably.

Since 1931 at the latest, the two self-portraits by artist friends Schleiden and Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte have been among the works of art in the Suermondt Museum in Aachen.

Around 1830 Schleiden portrayed the Frankenburg and restored the painting The Entombment of Christ by Gerrit van Honthorst from 1632, which had its place as a high altar picture in the St. Michael Church in Aachen .

In 1846 Schleiden restored the portrait of Charlemagne for Aachen City Hall .

Works

The Frankenburg , around 1830

around 1830: Frankenburg , oil painting on wood, 22 × 24 cm
Self-portrait , Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen
The Aachen Gertrudis Night , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

literature

Johannes Fey: On the history of Aachen painters of the 19th century. In: From Aachen's prehistory. Announcements from the association for customers of the Aachen prehistory . Volume 10, 1897, No. 4/8, here pp. 82–83 ( online ).
F. Kuetgens: Report on the activities of the city museums in the years 1927 to 1930 . In: Museumsverein Aachen (Ed.): Aachener Kunstblätter . Volume 15, Aachen 1931, here p. 29 ff.

References and comments

^ F. Kuetgens: Report on the activities of the municipal museums in the years 1927 to 1930 , p. 29 ff.
↑ 1916 receipt in the St. Michael parish archive, Aachen. Karl Faymonville : The profane monuments and the collections of the city of Aachen (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 10, Section 3). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1924, p. 141.
^ The large painting is being restored by Ludwig Schleiden for 45 thalers. The gilder Peter Erkelenz made the gilded frame for 72 TAler. On July 17, 1846, Mayor Edmund Emundts instructed the city pension fund to pay for it. Files of the City of Aachen 7/4, Volume I. City Archive, Aachen. RMS II. P. 48.
↑ Peter Hermann Loosen: From the old Aachen. 4th edition. Aquensia-Klette, Aachen 1982, p. 48.

personal data
SURNAME	Schleiden, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait, history and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 4, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1862
Place of death	Aachen

[1] F. Kuetgens: Report on the activities of the municipal museums in the years 1927 to 1930 , p. 29 ff.

[2] 1916 receipt in the St. Michael parish archive, Aachen. Karl Faymonville : The profane monuments and the collections of the city of Aachen (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 10, Section 3). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1924, p. 141.

[3] The large painting is being restored by Ludwig Schleiden for 45 thalers. The gilder Peter Erkelenz made the gilded frame for 72 TAler. On July 17, 1846, Mayor Edmund Emundts instructed the city pension fund to pay for it. Files of the City of Aachen 7/4, Volume I. City Archive, Aachen. RMS II. P. 48.

[4] Peter Hermann Loosen: From the old Aachen. 4th edition. Aquensia-Klette, Aachen 1982, p. 48.