August Lucas
Precise, light romantic Italian landscapes
August Lucas was one of the most important representatives of romantic art of Darmstadt, Germany. After studying history painting in Munich with Peter Cornelius from which Lucas turned away quickly, the artist focused on the landscape, which became his main subject especially through his first stay in Italy from 1829 to 1834. In Rome, Lucas joined the German artist colony of around Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhart. Many excursions together with Friedrich Preller (1830) and Wilhelm Ahlborn (1831) led the artist to Olevano and Civitella. From the 1830s he turned more and more to the real nature subject to his drawing technique was even more precise, light his palette and colorful.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Peter Cornelius Master
- Philipp Röth Student
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist
- Junges Mädchen mit gesenktem Kopf
- Bergige Waldlandschaft bei Affile 1831
- Studie aus den Sabiner Bergen 1830 [-] 1831
- Study of garments
- Bei Olevano, im Mittelgrund zwei Hirten mit Herde 1830
- Bildnis eines Bauernmädchens 1824
- Studie zu einem Pferdeschenkel und zwei Hunden
- Studies of horses
- Study of garments.
- Ansicht von Subiaco, oben rechts Studien eines Mädchenkopfes 1831
- Mountain landscape near Olevano 1830 [-] 1831
- Forest landscape 1830 [-] 1831
- View of Morges
- Watercolour samples
- View of Segni 1830 [-] 1831
- Resting cattle 1830
- Landscape near Paliano 1830 [-] 1831
- Römerin, ihr Haar flechtend 1850
- Sabiner Berge, im Vordergrund eine Piniengruppe 1830-1831
- View of Anagni 1830 [-] 1831