[독일 풍경화가]August Wilhelm Leu

A Sunny day on a Norwegian Fjord by August Leu (1862)

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.

Leu was born in Münster. He was a pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, a landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school.^[1][2]

Leu travelled in Norway in 1843 and 1847, and later travelled widely in the Alps.^[2] His Norwegian paintings raised awareness in Germany of that country's scenery.^[1] He lived for a time in Brussels, then returned to Düsseldorf;^[2] in 1855 he received an honourable mention at the Paris Exposition.^[3] In 1882 he moved to Berlin,^[2] where he became a royal professor and a member of the Academy of Art;^[4] he was also a member of the Vienna, Amsterdam and Brussels Academies.^[5][6] He received several gold medals in Berlin and was awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold.^[5]

His son, also named August Leu (1852–76) studied under him and was a landscape and animal painter.^[1] Leu died in Seelisberg, Switzerland.

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  Alpine Peak (1896)

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  View of the Eiger and the Mönch from the Wengerenalp (1865)

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  Fjord Landscape with Glacier and Reindeer (1896)

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  Norwegian Fjord Landscape (1849)

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  Matterhorn