August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn (October 11, 1796 – August 24, 1857) was a German

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...

Life

Ahlborn was born in

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, son of the Hanoverian master tailor Heinrich Christian Ahlborn and Dorothea Elisabeth Röllecke. He entered the Prussian Academy of Arts (

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) in 1819, where he studied with Karl Wilhelm Wach. In 1826 he received the Academy Award for a portrait of the New Palace in Potsdam, and used the money to travel to Italy in 1827, where he was one of the founders of the Roman Kunstverein. In this period, he lived in Rome, Florence, and Ascoli. In December 1832, he married Therese, the daughter of a government official, in Berlin. In 1833 he became a member of the Prussian Academy. In Italy, Ahlborn and his wife converted to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism, on August 15, 1837. His paintings are mainly of Italian, North German, and Tyrolean landscapes, but also including a few portraits and religious works. Many of his works were in the possession of the royal family of Prussia. Ahlborn died in Rome in 1857.

Works

* Gothic cathedral on the waterfront, 1823. (inspired by a work by

Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassic ...

) * The Paulinzella monastery ruins, 1824, oil on canvas, 86 × 111 cm, Thuringian State Museum, Heidecksburg. * View of the New Palace in Potsdam, 1826, 124.8 x 185 cm, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover. * Coastline at the

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, 1832, oil on canvas, 24 × 80.2 cm, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover. * Vision of the Golden Flower, 1832. * View of Florence, in 1832, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. * Mountain Landscape, 1835. * Syracuse, Sicily in morning light, 1836, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover. * View of

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, in 1840, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover. * Ruins of the Villa Mills on the Palatine Hill in Rome, 1843, oil on canvas, 33.2 × 46.8 cm. *

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landscape, 1852, oil on canvas, 37.5 × 45.5 cm. * View of the Lake Como, oil on canvas, 100 × 138 cm. * Selfportrait with brother, down picture, diameter 43 cm, 1827, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover (in the background Cityscape Berlin).

Gallery

File:August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn - Blick in Griechenlands Blüte - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Blick in Griechenlands Blüte'' (View of the Flower of Greece). Oil on canvas, 94 cm x 235 cm. 1836. File:1832 Ahlborn Bucht von Pozzuoli anagoria.JPG, "''Die Bucht von Pozzuoli bei Neapel''" (The Bay of Pozzuoli near Naples). 1832.

References

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