Henri Lehmann

Karl Heinrich Rudolph Lehmann, also and mainly in the art literature French Henri Lehmann ( * April 14, 1814 in Kiel, † March 31, 1882 in Paris) was a naturalized French historical and portrait painter of the Neoclassicism.

Life

Lehmann received his first instruction from his father, Leo Lehmann, then from 1831 by Ingres in Paris; Hippolyte Flandrin next he was his best pupil. He has performed with Tobias and the Angel at the salon first in 1835. In 1837 he was commissioned by Louis Philippe to paint the death of Robert the Strong for the gallery of Versailles. Towards the end of the year he moved to Munich, where he went to Italy in 1838. Later he returned to Paris. He died in late March 1882.

His brother Rudolf Lehmann was also a painter and his pupil.

Works (selection)

Among the easel pictures of the artist, who in 1847 took French citizenship, are:

  • The fisherman, after Goethe (1837, Museum of Carcassonne );
  • Marie d' Agoult, (1843, Musée Carnavalet )
  • The daughters of the source Mariuccia;
  • Prometheus (1851, in Luxembourg );
  • Arrival of Sara with the parents of Tobias (1866 ).

These images are characterized by subtlety and power of modeling and grace of form from. Its shape knowledge came to him in particular also benefited in his many portraits. Well said Lehmann understood to decorative painting in fixed and splendor spaces. End of the 1850s he painted in the throne room in Luxembourg, then in the Palais de Justice in Paris.

Among his paintings are monumental church in the chapel of the Holy Spirit to St. -Merry the most important; of the altarpieces are the Flagellation of Christ ( 1842, in St -Nicolas to Boulogne ) to name and Assumption. His critics complain, however, his creations have often a more academic nature, its apparent absence of truth and warmth.

Museale reception

Includes works by Lehmann in the following institutions:

Exhibitions

  • Commemorative exhibition Paris, 1883
France Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Rudolf Lehmann (artist) Palais de Justice (Paris) Versailles (city) Château de Chantilly Getty Center Integrated Authority File
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