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August Weber BIOGRAPHY
1817 Frankfurt, Germany - 1873 Dusseldorf, Germany. Known for: Forest scene painting.
Weber began his training as a landscape painter at H. Rosenkranz and continued it at H. Schilbach in Darmstadt. At the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt he learned then first the perspective drawing... Read full biography
Weber began his training as a landscape painter at H. Rosenkranz and continued it at H. Schilbach in Darmstadt. At the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt he learned then first the perspective drawing and studied 1838-39 at the Dusseldorf Academy under JW Schirmer. In 1840 he opened his own studio in... Read full biography
Weber began his training as a landscape painter at H. Rosenkranz and continued it at H. Schilbach in Darmstadt. At the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt he learned then first the perspective drawing and studied 1838-39 at the Dusseldorf Academy under JW Schirmer. In 1840 he opened his own studio in Dusseldorf and trained numerous artists. "Unlike his teacher Schirmer Weber away from detailed realism and aimed instead at a harmony of colors and shapes. He preferred earth-brown and black colors... Read full biography
Weber began his training as a landscape painter at H. Rosenkranz and continued it at H. Schilbach in Darmstadt. At the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt he learned then first the perspective drawing and studied 1838-39 at the Dusseldorf Academy under JW Schirmer. In 1840 he opened his own studio in Dusseldorf and trained numerous artists. "Unlike his teacher Schirmer Weber away from detailed realism and aimed instead at a harmony of colors and shapes. He preferred earth-brown and black colors green and effective lighting moods of different times of the day. " (Bruckmann, Lexikon der Düsseldorf School, Vol 3, p. 398).... Read full biography
Weber began his training as a landscape painter at H. Rosenkranz and continued it at H. Schilbach in Darmstadt. At the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt he learned then first the perspective drawing and studied 1838-39 at the Dusseldorf Academy under JW Schirmer. In 1840 he opened his own studio in Dusseldorf and trained numerous artists. "Unlike his teacher Schirmer Weber away from detailed realism and aimed instead at a harmony of colors and shapes. He preferred earth-brown and black colors green and effective lighting moods of different times of the day. " (Bruckmann, Lexikon der Düsseldorf School, Vol 3, p. 398).
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Johann Baptist Wilhelm August Weber
Biography from Winterberg Kunst
Weber began his training as a landscape painter at H. Rosenkranz and continued it at H. Schilbach in Darmstadt. At the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt he learned then first the perspective drawing and studied 1838-39 at the Dusseldorf Academy under JW Schirmer. In 1840 he opened his own studio in Dusseldorf and trained numerous artists.
"Unlike his teacher Schirmer Weber away from detailed realism and aimed instead at a harmony of colors and shapes. He preferred earth-brown and black colors green and effective lighting moods of different times of the day. " (Bruckmann, Lexikon der Düsseldorf School, Vol 3, p. 398).Biography from Bolland & Marotz
August Weber studied with the court painter Johann Heinrich Schilbach in Darmstadt. Later he was a pupil of the Städel Institute in Frankfurt. In the fall of 1838 he moved to Dusseldorf, where he attended the Academy.