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August Leu
August Wilhelm Leu (24 March 1818 – 20 July 1897) was a German landscape painter of the Romantic school. Most of his pictures are large-format and depict scenes in Norway and the Alps.
==Biography==
Leu was born in Münster. He was a pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, a landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school.〔A. Hk., "Leu, August Wilhelm", ''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'', 2nd ed. (1915–30), Volume XV: ''Kvadratrod – Ludmila'', p. 724, (online ) at Project Runeberg .〕〔''Meyers Konversations-Lexikon'', 6th ed. (1902–13), Volume 12: ''L – Lyra'', (pp. 456–57 ) .〕
Leu travelled in Norway in 1843 and 1847, and later travelled widely in the Alps.〔 His Norwegian paintings raised awareness in Germany of that country's scenery.〔 He lived for a time in Brussels, then returned to Düsseldorf;〔 in 1855 he received an honourable mention at the Paris Exposition.〔''Zeitschrift für Bauwesen'' 6 (1856) (p. 212 ) .〕 In 1882 he moved to Berlin,〔 where he became a royal professor and a member of the Academy of Art;〔''Catalogue of the Art Department of the Eighth Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1880'', Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1880, , (p. 5 ).〕 he was also a member of the Vienna, Amsterdam and Brussels Academies.〔"Leu, August (Wilhelm)", ''Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings'', ed. John Denison Champlin, Jr. and Charles C. Perkins, (1913 ed.), New York: Scribner's, , Volume 3, (p. 72 ).〕〔Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton, ''Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches'', 5th ed. Boston: Osgood, 1889, , (p. 63 ).〕 He received several gold medals in Berlin and was awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold.〔
His son, also named August Leu (1852–76) studied under him and was a landscape and animal painter.〔 Leu died in Seelisberg, Switzerland.
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