Ascan Lutteroth
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Ascan Lutteroth (5 October 1842, Hamburg - 2 February 1923, Hamburg) was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Biography[]
His grandfather, Hamburg Parliament as a Senator.. His father, Christian Alexander Ascan Lutteroth (1812-1867), was a prominent banker. From 1861, he studied with Alexandre Calame in Geneva then, from 1864 to 1867, with Oswald Achenbach at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
, was a merchant and served in theHe lived in Italy from 1868 to 1870, mostly on Capri, then moved to Berlin. In 1872, he married Elisabeth Warnecke (1851-1932), the daughter of , a merchant and politician like his grandfather. He returned to Hamburg in 1877, where he was awarded a commission to paint three large pictures for the Town Hall.
In 1879, he paid a lengthy visit to San Remo. While there, he served as a tutor for Crown Princess Victoria, who was an amateur painter. Most of his best known earlier landscapes are of Italy.
In 1890, Kaiser Wilhelm II named him a Professor. After that, he confined his painting to the area around Hamburg. Until 1909, he was Chairman of the .
He was represented at numerous international exhibitions. His works were acquired by the National Gallery (Berlin) and the Rudolfinum in Prague, but are not currently on display; placed in storage in favor of more modern works. They may still be seen at the Kunsthalle Hamburg and the , among other smaller venues. In 2019, his works were part of an exhibit at the Kunsthalle: Hamburger Schule – Das 19. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt (The 19th Century rediscovered).
He is interred at his family's gravesite at the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof.
Sources[]
- Lutteroth, Ascan. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Vol.I, Dresden 1895, pgs.907 ff.
- Tilman Osterwold: Der Hamburger Maler Ascan Lutteroth. Dissertation, Innsbruck 1969
- Karoline Müller/Friedrich Rothe (Eds.): Victoria von Preußen 1840-1901 in Berlin 2001. Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V., Berlin 2001, pg.252 ISBN 978-3-9802288-9-3
- Hans F. Schweers: Gemälde in deutschen Museen. Katalog der ausgestellten und depotgelagerten Werke. 7 Bde., München 2005, ISBN 3-598-24166-6.
- Tilman Osterwold (1987), "Ascan Lutteroth", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 15, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 565–565; (full text online)
- Lutteroth, Ascan. In: Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig 1882, pgs.344 f.
External links[]
Media related to Ascan Lutteroth at Wikimedia Commons
- More works by Lutteroth @ ArtNet
- 1842 births
- 1923 deaths
- German painters
- German landscape painters
- Düsseldorf school of painting
- Artists from Hamburg