August Weber

August Weber ( born January 10, 1817 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 9, 1873 in Dusseldorf ) was a German painter.

Life

Weber began his studies with the painter rosary as a landscape painter, which he then continued at the court painter Johann Heinrich Schilbach in Darmstadt. From 1836 to 1838 he was a student of the Städel Institute in Frankfurt. In the fall of 1838 he moved to Dusseldorf, where he attended the Academy for another year, but later trained many students and even died on 9 September 1873.

Weber's landscapes belong to the stylistic direction, its main attraction is based in the beauty of lines and shapes, a rounded possible composition and a poetic mood of the color. He has a large number of poetic images created under which the moonlight and night landscapes found the biggest applause. Also drawings and watercolors were created by him. Likewise, he had tried successfully in lithography. He was Regius Professor.

Works (selection)

• In: Collection of original etchings Düsseldorf artist. - Dusseldorf: . Schulgen, 1850 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf