Ernst Arnold Lyongrün (1871–1935) was a German people, German practitioner of the ''Jugendstil'' or Art Nouveau style of decorative arts and a painter in the Impressionism, Impressionistic mode.

Early life

Lyongrün was born Oct. 2, 1871, in Domnau, Province of Prussia (now Domnovo, Russia). He grew up during the Gründerzeit boom of Imperial Germany, studying in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). Thereafter he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under French artists Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury, and undertook student journeys around France, Austria and Italy. Beginning in 1898, Lyongrün lived and worked in the Hamburg area, and in 1907 he became a teacher at the State Academy of Art in Hamburg. During the First World War he was drafted into the Germany Army. Lyongrün survived the war and in 1919 became an independent painter. He became a member of the Hamburg Artists Society (founded 1920) and subsequently a member of the German National Association of Visual Artists (''Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands''). A few years later he was a member of the artists colony at Ahrenshoop on the Darss Peninsula at the Baltic Sea, in Hither Pomerania.

Career

During his sojourn in France, the young Lyongrün was inspired by the Art Nouveau movement exemplified by the Nancy School. He published a number of patterns for decorative arts and crafts, among them ''Decorative Motifs from the Natural World'' (1899) and ''New Ideas for Decorative Art'' (1901).''Arnold Lyongrün''
(DjVu). In: Hans W. Singer (Hrsg.): ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Leben und Werke der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler, Band 6''. Rütten, Frankfurt am Main 1922. ''Internet Archive'', retrieved 19 October 2010 These works are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In art history, Lyongrün is regarded primarily as a landscape painter and a marine artist. His paintings include scenes from the Black Forest, the Lüneburg Heath, the low-lying environs of Hamburg and the shores of the Baltic Sea. He also painted a few portraits. Early exhibitions of Lyongrün's works were staged in Hamburg in 1911 and 1919.

Gallery

Lyongrün, Frühling an der Luhe.jpg, ''Spring on the Lühe'' (1904) Arnold_Lyongrün,_Auf_blühender_Heide.jpg, ''The Blooming Heath'' (1910) Arnold Lyongrün Blick vom Feldberg im Schwarzwald, 1910.jpg, ''Feldberg, Black Forest'' (1910) File:Arnold Lyongrün, Die Quelle, Ölgemälde 1911.jpg, ''The Source'' (1911) Wassermühle am Titisee im Schwarzwald.jpg, ''Mill on the Titisee'' (1912) Arnold_Lyongrün_Eichen_am_Kellersee.jpg, ''Oaks on the Kellersee'' (1919) Arnold Lyongrün, Abend an der Ostsee.jpg, ''Evening on the Baltic'' (1921) File:Heidelandschaft bei Wilsede, Ölgemälde 1912.jpg, ''Heath Landscape near Wilsede'' Arnold Lyongrün, Ölgemälde Ostseewellen (1920er Jahre).JPG, ''Baltic Sea Surf'' (1925) File:Arnold Lyongrün Weg in der Lüneburger Heide.jpg, ''Track, Lüneburg Heath'' Arnold Lyongrün, Frühling im Schwarzwald, 1912.jpg, ''Spring, Black Forest (1912)

References

Publications

* Arnold Lyongrün: ''Eine Sammlung naturalistischer Motive''. Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1898 * Arnold Lyongrün: ''Neue Ornamente''. Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1899–1902 * Arnold Lyongrün: ''Vorbilder für Kunstverglasungen im Style der Neuzeit''. Verlag Hessling, Berlin / New York 1900 * Arnold Lyongrün: ''Neue Ideen für dekorative Kunst und das Kunstgewerbe'', Verlag Kanter und Mohr, Berlin 1903 * Arnold Lyongrün: ''Masterpieces of Art Nouveau, Stained Glass Design, 91 Motifs in full color''. Verlag Dover Pubn, 1989 * Arnold Lyongrün: ''From Nature to Ornament, Organic Forms in the Art Nouveau Style''. Dover Pictorial Archive Series, 2010

Sources

* ''Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, Bd. 1''. 5. Auflage, Leipzig 1911, S. 687. * Hans W. Singer (Hrsg.):
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Leben und Werke der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler, Bd 6
'. Rütten & Loening Verlag, Frankfurt/M. 1922. * Ernst Rump (ed.), Kay Rump (pub.), Maike Bruhns (pub.): ''Der Neue Rump. Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler Hamburgs, Altonas und der näheren Umgebung''. 2. Auflage. Verlag Wachtholz, Neumünster 2005, . * Paul Pfisterer: ''Signaturlexikon''. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, p. 425

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