August Bausch (2 March 1818 – 28 February 1909) was a German genre, portrait and history painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Life
Bausch came from Bonn to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. From 1835 to 1839, Karl Ferdinand Sohn was his teacher there.Findbuch 212.01.04 Schülerlisten der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf )Museum Kunstpalast: Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule (Selection, as of November 2016), PDF After his studies, he worked in Düsseldorf and Bonn. In 1839, he exhibited the picture Abraham and Isaac's sacrifice in Frankfurt. As a history painter, he attracted the attention of the art professor Rudolf Wiegmann with his paintings Gretchen and Martha (after Goethe's Faust) (1841) and Tempelritter auf der Morgenwache (1843).Rudolf Wiegmann: Die Königliche Kunst-Akademie zu Düsseldorf. Ihre Geschichte, Einrichtung und Wirksamkeit und die Düsseldorfer Künstler. Publishing house of the Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, (AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA238&dq=August+Bausch+Bonn&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDx4GH1sXfAhUHfFAKHSUtA1M4KBC7BQhIMAY#v=onepage&q=August%20Bausch%20Bonn&f=false Google Books) However, Bausch made a name for himself as a portrait painter and portrait draughtsman in his home town of Bonn, where he especially created portraits of students,Sabine Gertrud Cremer: Nicolaus Christian Hohe (1798-1868). University drawing teacher in Bonn. Lit, Bonner Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, vol. 16, Münster 2001, , mainly that of his nephew Hermann Deiters. Also well-known is his portrait of the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander from Bonn, painted around 1868.Ralph Burmester, Jörg Bradenahl: Die Vermessung des Himmels. An exhibition at the Deutsches Museum Bonn. In Culture & Technology. Issue 1/2010, , PDF
Work Der Heilige Servatius im Bischofsornat, 1840Tagesheilige 13. Mai – Hl. Servatius. Orientalische Hafenstadt mit Dschunke und chinesischen Händlerbooten, Öl auf Platte, 32 × 46 cmAugust Bausch.
Further reading Hermann Board: Bausch, August. In Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (ed.): Thieme-Becker. Established by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker.. Vol. 3: Bassano–Bickham. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, (Textarchiv – Internet Archive). Hans Paffrath / Museum Kunstpalast (ed.): Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, , Anhang, p. 439.
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