Friedrich August Elsasser
Illustration — View from Posillipo to Bagnoli, Procida, Cape Miseno on the left of the painting, and Niceda (1836) • Illustration — Southern landscape Friedrich August Elsasser (1810–1845), a painter of landscapes and architectural views, was born in Berlin and studied at the Academy of that city under Carl Blechen, whose influence on art was at that time very great. In 1831 he went to Italy, and in 1834 and 1835 he visited Sicily. Among his choicest works are The Forest of Calabria, The Interior of a Church at Palermo, and A View of the Ruins at Rome.
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Friedrich August Elsasser
Friedrich August Elsasser · Palais Dorotheum, Wien, 12.04.2011, lot 3 · Public domain
- Died
- 1845 · Rome.
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- Kingdom of Prussia
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- Prussian Academy of Arts
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The King of Prussia sent him the Order of the Red Eagle, and granted him a pension for life, which he did not long enjoy, as he died in 1845 in Rome. His brothers, Heinrich and Julius Elsasser, were also landscape painters.
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Friedrich August Elsasser, a painter, was born on 24 July 1810 in Berlin and died on 1 September 1845. Friedrich August Elsasser died in Rome, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
• Palermo • Lago dei Nemi • Campo santo bei Pisa im Mondlicht • Sibyllengrotte in Tivoli • Klostergang in Cefalu • Innere der beleuchteten Peterskirche • Theater von Taormina
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- 1.Friedrich Noack. Elsasser, Friedrich August. 10. 480. 481.
- 2.Katalog der Galerie Kuhtz Berlin Oelgemälde Aquarelle und Zeichnungen neuerer, sowie einiger älterer Meister ersten Ranges. 1898.
- 3.ADB 6 61 Elsaßer, Friedrich August Robert Dohme ADB:Elsasser, Friedrich August
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