August Löffler

August Löffler ( born May 24, 1822 in Munich, † January 19, 1866 ) was a German painter.

Life

Löffler formed under Henry Adam and Rottmann, to which it is joined preferably. Initially he painted pictures of the Isar valley near Munich, 1846, he made ​​a trip to Istria and northern Italy and in 1849 moved to the Orient, to this trip including through the implementation of a panorama of Jerusalem, which he undertook for six riders after his sketches (now, as gift Maximilian II of Bavaria, in the Lateran ).

He traveled through Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor and the end of 1850 came back to Munich, from where he went to Dresden and Berlin in 1851. In the following years a significant number of landscape images from Palestine and Greece for the kings of Prussia and Württemberg was born. 1853 accompanied Löffler Ludwig Thiersch to Greece where she gained a wealth of studies. After his return he painted a large picture: Delphi and studied the old masters in Venice and Milan ( 1856).

The following year he painted Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Saba, Damascus, and the Red Sea for the King of Württemberg and drew the cartoons The finding of Moses and God appears to Elijah on Mount Horeb. In 1863 he painted from Athens grove of Colonus, and a view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, then for the social hall in Bad Kochel four large murals Memphis, Jerusalem, Athens and Rome.

Löffler died on January 19, 1866 in Munich.