Nikolai of Astudin

Nikolai von Astudin, Bacharach. From the series "Astudin Maps from the Rhine"

Nikolai von Astudin ( Russian: Николай Львович Астудин / Nikolai Lwowitsch Astudin ; born July 9, 1847 in Moscow , † August 8, 1925 in Oberlahnstein ) was a Russian landscape painter .

Life

Astudin was the son of an officer and completed his school education in Saint Petersburg . He then became a student of the landscape painter Armand-Théophile Cassagne (1823-1907) in Paris . Study trips take him to Finland , the Alpine countries and Italy . Astudin had exhibitions in Berlin as early as 1876 and 1877, and in Zurich in 1885 . Astudin lived for a long time in Kassel . In 1896 he married the painter Johanna Meineke from Braubach am Rhein. 1904/1905 Astudin lived in Bonn . His Bonn motifs include the Rhine Bridge from 1898 and the Godesburg . In 1912 he moved to Oberlahnstein , where he lived until his death. In this late phase he mainly painted Rhine motifs and repeatedly painted Lahneck Castle .

On the 80th anniversary of his death, the city of Lahnstein held a retrospective on September 18, 2005 in the Sporkenburger Hof .

Astudin became widely known for his paintings of the Rhine and the numerous reproductions of his views of the Rhine. His work is an expression of the Rhine and Eifel romanticism of the early 20th century.

literature

• Rhenish castles and landscapes. 12 copperplate prints after paintings by Astudin . Hoursch & Bechstedt publishing house, Cologne 1911.
• Astudin maps from the Rhine. 20 colored cards based on oil paintings . Hoursch & Bechstedt publishing house, Cologne 1923.
• Wolfgang Bickel: Nicolai von Astudin's pictures of the Rhine . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2002. ISBN 978-3884621868
• Horst Bursch: Eifel Yearbook 2005

Web links

Commons : Nikolai von Astudin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Detailed biography and pictures of Astudin's works
• Astudin maps from the Rhine. A selection with poems from the Rhine