Robert Assmus
Robert Assmus (born December 25, 1837 in Stuhm ( West Prussia ), † May 30, 1904 in Dießen am Ammersee ) was a German landscape painter and illustrator .
Life
He attended grammar school in Thorn , but with his passion for art he also had lessons from the flower painter Friedrich Wilhelm Völcker († 1870).
After he had just decided to become a painter , the death of his father forced him to become an apprentice in a bookstore, although he continued his literary and artistic training and did a lot of drawing based on models by Alexandre Calame . When he came to Berlin for the first time , the sight of the pictures of Troyon and Carl Friedrich Lessing made a deep impression on him. Before he could devote himself entirely to landscape painting , however, he earned his living with illustrations for the Illustrirte Zeitung , for Die Gartenlaube , the magazine Daheim and other papers.
Only after the war of 1870/71 , in which he took part as an illustrator for the Illustrirte Zeitung , did he settle in Munich and undertake study trips to Northern Italy , the Carpathians , Hungary , the Baltic Sea and Switzerland . Inspired by this, he published the “Alsace-Lorraine” illustrated magnificent work, judged to be “very favorable”.
His landscapes, which have been described as having a "poetic mood, appealing tone and great power of color", include: the "Gemmipassage" , the "Waldsee" , "Motiv bei Stuttgart" , "Karpathendorf" , "Aussee" , "Lorraine landscape" , "Vistula beach" , "Evening mood" , "Windmills in a storm" .
literature
- Hermann Alex. Müller: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1882, pp. 19–20 Digitized in: The Retro Library - reference works for the end of the 19th century
- Robert Assmus . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 473.
- Heye, Michael: Assmus, Robert . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 201 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Assmus, Robert . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 1, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, p. 36
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Manfred H. Grieb (editor): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon , Volume 1 (A – G), p. 39 Google digitized ; in the case of Müller, however, 1842 is the year of birth
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Assmus, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Assmus, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1837 or December 25, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuhm , West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1904 |
| Place of death | Dießen am Ammersee |