Louis Asher

Louis Asher (actually Ludwig Julius Asher, born June 26, 1804 in Hamburg, † March 7, 1878 in Hamburg ) was a German landscape painter and sculptor.

Life

Asher comes from a Jewish family that converted 1810. His parents were Ludewig Matthias Asher (* 1769 in Lubben ), merchant and banker in Hamburg, and Anna Mariane Hedwig Philipson (* around 1772 in Altona), granddaughter of Alexander David.

Asher began his training at Hardorff Gerdt (1769-1864), who gave to the Patriotic Society and drawing lessons at Leo Lehmann (1782-1859), the father of Rudolf Lehmann. From 1821 he studied at the Academy in Dresden in close cooperation with other Hamburg artists such as Julius Milde, Julius Oldach and Hans Heinrich Porth, with whom he established a lifelong friendship and whom he portrayed in 1828. Even Ernst Ferdinand Oehme and Ernst Rietschel belong to the circle. Then Asher went to the Dusseldorf Academy under Peter Cornelius. With Cornelius, he went to Munich in 1825 and assisted him in the painting of the sculpture gallery.

After a stay in Hamburg, where he designed the great tomb Philippi among other things on the Ohlsdorfer cemetery, he went in 1832 with his friend and fellow artist Erwin Speckter for three years on a study trip to Italy. 1838/39 he undertook another trip to Italy together with Wilhelm Kaulbach, who influenced him greatly. Conversely, Asher was also intimate critic Kaulbach. His works hang in the Kunsthalle Hamburg, as well as museums in Lübeck and Stockholm. In 1879 he exhibited in Hamburg.

His brother was the publicist Dr. jur. Carl William Asher. His great-niece was the portrait painter Helene von der Leyen.

Works (selection)

Portrait of the pianist Jenny Lind, 1845

Mrs. Fehling with their children, about 1867

Image of a child

The artist in his studio