Ludwig Skell
Ludwig Skell (also: Sckell ) (* 1842 in Obergünzburg ; † March 31, 1905 in Munich ) was a German landscape , genre , portrait and caricature painter and lithographer . He was a member of the Sckell family of painters and gardeners and is not identical to the painter Ludwig Sckell (1833–1912).
Life
Skell was the son of a district ranger. He enrolled on October 24, 1859 (according to the register book at the age of 20) for the class of antiquities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He settled permanently in Munich. In addition to genre painting, he created portraits and landscapes or illustrations for fairy tales and ballads. Some lithographs by him are also known.
Works (selection)
- Landscape with Seefeld Castle on the Ammersee. (Pencil drawing)
- A farm boy with his girl sitting under a tree. (Pencil drawing)
- Erlkönig based on Göthe's ballad. (Pencil drawing)
- A minstrel with his love under a tree. (Pencil drawing)
- The May Festival of the artists on the Rottmannshöhe in June 1858 (pencil drawing)
- Dance fun in the forest in the area of Miesbach. (Pen drawing)
- The fairy tale of Snow White and the seven dwarfs. (1875 watercolors)
- Illustrated menu for a folk festival in Thuringia; above the host to the Dr. Martin Luther at his doorstep (lithograph)
- Initial reasons for the landscape drawing school. Designed and lithographed by L. Skell. Issue 1, 2, Munich 1869.
Portraits
- Kaspar Braun , editor and founder of the Fliegende Blätter. (4th pen drawing)
- Heinrich Bürkel , Bavarian animal and landscape painter (half-length portrait, 4 pen drawings)
literature
- Peter Lack: The gardener and artist family Sckell. In: The garden art. Volume 14, Issue 2, 2002, p. 195.
- Horst Ludwig: Sckell and Skell and other animal painters: Munich landscape painters in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 13th episode. In: Weltkunst . 57, 1987, pp. 3690-3694.
- Skell, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 398 .
Web links
Commons : Ludwig Skell - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Ludwig Skell (German, 1843–1905). artnet.de
- Game in the Au muenchner-stadtmuseum.de
- Ludwig Skell in HeidICON Illustrations of the Flying Leaves
Individual evidence
- ↑ 01600 Ludwig Sckell . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841-1884 . Munich 1884 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00004661-2 ( matrikel.adbk.de , digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- ^ Skell, 2) Ludwig. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 493 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
- ^ Josef Maillinger: Ludwig Skell (I) . In: Picture Chronicle of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Munich Directory of a collection of graphic arts products on the local, cultural and art history of the Bavarian capitals from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century . tape 1 . Montmorillon, Munich 1876, p. 77-78 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ^ Art collection of Mr. L. Cassotti… Gabriel Posonyi, Vienna 1893, p. 53 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skell, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sckell, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape, genre, portrait and caricature painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Obergünzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1905 |
| Place of death | Munich |