August Becker (painter)

August Becker ( born January 27, 1821 in Darmstadt, † December 19, 1887 in Dusseldorf ) was a German landscape painter.

Life and work

His first study trip led August Becker to Lichtenberg, Rudesheim and the Nahe Valley. In addition he painted many landscapes in the area of Darmstadt, eg in the Odenwald.

The Winter 1841/1842 he spent in Dusseldorf, which offered a bigger market for art in comparison to Darmstadt. Becker was soon able to build a stable existence by selling his paintings.

1844 Becker took a trip to Norway. Subsequently, he painted numerous pictures of the Norwegian fjords.

Becker and the British royal family

1854, in the time of the beginning of naturalism, to August Becker held for study purposes for several weeks in London, to visit the local museums. August Becker's brother Ernst, 1851 was entered as a librarian and educator in Prince 's Royal British services. For example, a meeting with the Prince Albert, who later acquired little Beckers Painting The Jungfrau for 80 pounds sterling and donated it to Queen Victoria on Christmas revealed.

Since then, Becker enjoyed the English Court continuous appreciation. In the coming years, Queen Victoria acquired more pictures. In 1864, Becker traveled at the invitation of Queen Scotland, in 1869, he attended the queen on her country estate at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Painting style and oeuvre

August Becker was influenced in his painting style and his way of working heavily on the art of the first half of the 19th century. He was not an Impressionist who runs an oil painting in sketchy manner on site. Prove his sketchbooks, as the artist first held the atmospheric conditions and changing light conditions and so past tete pictures he meticulously finished it later.

His oeuvre comprises some 360 paintings. Alone, about eighty paintings and oil sketches of August Becker to have been sold to England.

Exhibitions

• August Becker ( 1821-1887 ). A Darmstadt landscape painter traveling in Europe. Art Archive Darmstadt, September 8 to October 27, 2002.