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1813 Halle-an-der-Saale, Germany - 1891 Austin, Texas. Known for: Topographic town-landscape, lithography.
Early Texas landscape painter and photographer Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March 14, 1813 in Halle-an-der-Saale, Saxony, while Napoleon's artillery bombarded the city. The majority... Read full biography
Early Texas landscape painter and photographer Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March 14, 1813 in Halle-an-der-Saale, Saxony, while Napoleon's artillery bombarded the city. The majority of three hundred fifty extant Lungkwitz works are pencil and oil studies from Europe. His Romantic... Read full biography
Early Texas landscape painter and photographer Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March 14, 1813 in Halle-an-der-Saale, Saxony, while Napoleon's artillery bombarded the city. The majority of three hundred fifty extant Lungkwitz works are pencil and oil studies from Europe. His Romantic landscape paintings of the Texas Hill Country, old San Antonio, its Spanish missions, and Austin, were painted over four decades, documenting nineteenth-century Texas. Two pre-Civil War lithographs (Dr.... Read full biography
Early Texas landscape painter and photographer Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March 14, 1813 in Halle-an-der-Saale, Saxony, while Napoleon's artillery bombarded the city. The majority of three hundred fifty extant Lungkwitz works are pencil and oil studies from Europe. His Romantic landscape paintings of the Texas Hill Country, old San Antonio, its Spanish missions, and Austin, were painted over four decades, documenting nineteenth-century Texas. Two pre-Civil War lithographs (Dr. Ernest Kapp's Water-Cure, Comal County, Texas and Friedrichsburg, Texas) and one postwar lithograph (San Antonio de Bexar) have been identified. Lungkwitz completed his paintings in his studio, based on careful pencil drawings done at favorite... Read full biography
Early Texas landscape painter and photographer Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March 14, 1813 in Halle-an-der-Saale, Saxony, while Napoleon's artillery bombarded the city. The majority of three hundred fifty extant Lungkwitz works are pencil and oil studies from Europe. His Romantic landscape paintings of the Texas Hill Country, old San Antonio, its Spanish missions, and Austin, were painted over four decades, documenting nineteenth-century Texas. Two pre-Civil War lithographs (Dr. Ernest Kapp's Water-Cure, Comal County, Texas and Friedrichsburg, Texas) and one postwar lithograph (San Antonio de Bexar) have been identified. Lungkwitz completed his paintings in his studio, based on careful pencil drawings done at favorite locales like Enchanted Rock, Bear Mountain, and other promontories north of Fredericksburg, which Lungkwitz called the Granite Mountains, and the Gu... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Media
- •Colored Pencil
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Germany Before 1900
- •Texas Before 1940
Art School
- •German Academies Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing