Ludwig von Langenmantel

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Ludwig von Langenmantel, portrait of a Spanish woman
Girolamo Savonarola, painted by Langenmantel, 1879 (detail)

Ludwig von Langenmantel also Ludwig Langenmantel von Westheim (born April 4, 1854 in Kelheim , † October 6, 1922 in Munich ) was a German nobleman and painter .

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Ludwig von Langenmantel came from the old Augsburg patrician family of the same name . His father Otto von Langenmantel (1816–1875) was born in Weiler near Kempten , attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked as a Bavarian construction clerk. In this capacity he led a. a. 1850 to 1856 the construction of the Liberation Hall near Kelheim. The mother Magdalena von Langenmantel (1825–1900) was a daughter of the battle painter Albrecht Adam (1786–1862). The mother's brothers, Benno Adam (1812–1892), Franz Adam (1815–1886) and Eugen Adam (1817–1880) were also painters.

As a child, Ludwig von Langenmantel began making his first attempts at painting in his grandfather's studio. From 1869 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and in 1874 became a student of Carl Theodor von Piloty . In 1875 he gave painting lessons to a princess of Anhalt-Dessau.

Langenmantel became known as a history and genre painter . In 1876 he created the work Arrest of the chemist Lavoisier , in 1879 the sermon of Savonarola . In 1885, the artist painted several surf pictures for King Ludwig II in Herrenchiemsee Palace , including the battle of Neerimmern and the court assembly in Versailles . From 1886 to 1919 Ludwig von Langenmantel worked as a teacher at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . During this time he also made ceiling paintings in the Grand Ducal Palace of Luxembourg , about which a separate font was published in 1896.

His daughter Erna von Langenmantel-Reitzenstein (1890–1968) worked as a sculptor and silhouette cutter in Munich. She also created a portrait bust of her father.

The Palatinate painter Heinrich Strieffler was one of Langenmantel's students.

gallery

  • Lavoisier's arrest, 1876

  • Savonarola's sermon, 1879 (overall picture)

  • Portrait of a seated Spanish woman

  • Biedermeier lady with a fan

  • Cavalry patrol

  • Three dancers

  • Spanish dance scene

  • The dance

  • Spring in the beech forest (early work from the academy time)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Weininger: Tourist guide through the Altmühlthal and its immediate surroundings , Regensburg, 1867, page 44; Scan from the source
  2. ↑ Stadtmuseum München: Albrecht Adam und seine Familie , 1981, page 114, ISBN 3922979025 ; Excerpt from the source
  3. ↑ Registration at the Academy of Fine Arts
  4. ^ Hans Heyn: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands , 2nd edition, page 233, Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, 1980; Excerpt from the source
  5. ↑ Find notice for publication on the ceiling paintings in the Grand Ducal Palace to Luxembourg
  6. ^ Horst Ludwig: Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert, 1994, page 7, ISBN 3765418064 ; Detail from the source
personal data
SURNAME Langenmantel, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludwig Langenmantel von Westheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelheim
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1922
Place of death Munich