Oscar Leu

Sun-drenched lakeshore with peasant women and geese in front of a farm , 1889

Oscar Leu (born March 23, 1864 in Düsseldorf , † February 1942 in Munich ) was a German naturalistic painter .

Like his brothers August and Otto , Leu was initially a student of his father August Leu . He studied at the art academies in Berlin and in Munich with Karl Raupp . Later he worked as a freelance artist, mainly as a landscape painter with a preference for mountains, in Munich and Dessau. Often works by the artist are available in auction shops.

literature

Leu, Oscar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 143 .
Leu, Oskar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 219 .

Individual evidence

↑ Oscar Leu: Mountain landscape with mountain hut , at: Bergmann auction ( Memento from 7 July 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

Commons : Oscar Leu - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Leu, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German naturalistic painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	February 1942
Place of death	Munich

[1] Oscar Leu: Mountain landscape with mountain hut , at: Bergmann auction ( Memento from 7 July 2012 in the web archive archive.today )