August Leu
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August Wilhelm Leu (24 March 1818 – 20 July 1897) was a German landscape painter of the Romantic school. Most of his pictures are large-format and depict scenes in Norway and the Alps.
Biography
Leu was born in Münster. He was a pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, a landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school.[1][2]
Leu travelled in Norway in 1843 and 1847, and later travelled widely in the Alps.[2] His Norwegian paintings raised awareness in Germany of that country's scenery.[1] He lived for a time in Brussels, then returned to Düsseldorf;[2] in 1855 he received an honourable mention at the Paris Exposition.[3] In 1882 he moved to Berlin,[2] where he became a royal professor and a member of the Academy of Art;[4] he was also a member of the Vienna, Amsterdam and Brussels Academies.[5][6] He received several gold medals in Berlin and was awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold.[5]
His son, also named August Leu (1852–76) studied under him and was a landscape and animal painter.[1] Leu died in Seelisberg, Switzerland.
Selected works
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- Norwegian Landscape with Waterfall (1849)
- Sognefjord (1849)
- Hohe Göll at Berchtesgaden (1859)
- Oeschinen Lake (1876)
- Queen Joanne's Palace at Naples (1886)
- Pool at Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains (1888)
- On the Engstlenalp (1893)
- Königsee and Watzmann
- Norwegian High Plateau
- Sunset on the Coast at Sorrento
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Alpine Peak (1896)
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View of the Eiger and the Mönch from the Wengerenalp (1865)
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Fjord Landscape with Glacier and Reindeer (1896)
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Norwegian Fjord Landscape (1849)
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Matterhorn
References
- 1 2 3 A. Hk., "Leu, August Wilhelm", Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, 2nd ed. (1915–30), Volume XV: Kvadratrod – Ludmila, p. 724, online at Project Runeberg (Danish).
- 1 2 3 4 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 6th ed. (1902–13), Volume 12: L – Lyra, pp. 456–57 (German).
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 6 (1856) p. 212 (German).
- ↑ Catalogue of the Art Department of the Eighth Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1880, Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1880, OCLC 229799766, p. 5.
- 1 2 "Leu, August (Wilhelm)", Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, ed. John Denison Champlin, Jr. and Charles C. Perkins, (1913 ed.), New York: Scribner's, OCLC 269766361, Volume 3, p. 72.
- ↑ Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, 5th ed. Boston: Osgood, 1889, OCLC 78151561, p. 63.
External links
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Media related to August Leu at Wikimedia Commons - August Wilhelm Leu at Van Ham auction house, Cologne (German)
- August Wilhelm Leu at Christie's auction house, London and New York