Discover cartoonist, painter Ludwig Knaus

Ludwig Knaus

male / German

cartoonist, painter

Qualifications: cartoonist, painter

Nationality/school: German

Born: Wiesbaden 1829-10-05

Deceased: Berlin 1910-12-07

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of the optician Johann Friedrich Knaus and his wife Anna Maria; married to Henriette Hoffmann 1859

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

founding members with Knaus of the Künstlerverein 'Malkasten' in Düsseldorf

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6 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Education: Staatliche Kunstakademie (Düsseldorf)

1845-1848

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Düsseldorf 1844
Joined the Kunstakademie, which he left in 1848 again after disagreements with director Wilhelm von Schadow; founded the ' Malkasten' with a.o. Benjamin Vautier, the Achenbach brothers etc.
Parijs 1852 - 1860
Berlijn 1852
Spring Exhibition 1852
Parijs 1867
Prices for his work during the World Exhibition in Paris, where he men von Mentzel
Frankrijk 1870 - 1871
Prisoner of War in France during the French-Prussian war
Berlijn 1874 - 1910-12-07
1874 Professor in Berlin at the Academy; 1904 member of the Institut de France in Paris; 1905 Honorary member of the Senate of the Academy; Knaus died in Berlin in 1910

Teacher at academy/university: Königlich Preussische Akademie der Künste (Berlin)

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Schadow, Wilhelm
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Breitbach, Carl
Flashar, Max
Munkácsy, Mihály von
Wille, Clara von
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Grotemeyer, Fritz
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Bokelmann, Christian Ludwig

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, portrait

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 6 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 20, p. 570
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 6, p. 251
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 159
Sitt 1997-1998
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 5, p. 588
Saur 1992- , AKLONLINE (december 2010)
Trepesch et al. 2007 , passim and esp. p. 172
Van den Brink/Birth 2018 , P. Forster, 'Barthold Suermondt und Ludwig Knaus. Eine Freundschaft im Zeichen der Kunst', p. 46-61

D. Kathmann, 'Rückgewinnung von abhanden gekommenen Kunstwerken. Erfahrungen und Erfolge', Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz 42 (2005), p. 265-295

Documentation RKD

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Project: Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.1576

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Creation date: 1992-01-11; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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