Ludwig Emil Grimm (14 March 1790 – 4 April 1863) was a German painter, art professor,

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and copper engraver.

Early life

Grimm was born in Hanau, Germany, in 1790. His brothers

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and

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were folklorists.

Education

Grimm studies began at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and Philip Otto Runge, then from 1809 to 1817, he studied at Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In the 1814, he worked as an officer in the campaign against

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. In 1816, he travelled to Italy where he learned engraving from Carl Ernst Christoph Hess and published his first work; a sketchbook of engravings based on his Italian journey.

Career

In 1819, Grimm contributed the frontispiece for the second edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' (

Grimm's Fairy Tales ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', originally known as the ''Children's and Household Tales'' (german: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, lead=yes, ), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first publi ...

). In 1823 and 1826 he was able to secure commissions for two series of portraits of scholars, professors and doctors, thanks to his brothers' connections to the academic community in

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. In 1832, he helped Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern found the artists' colony in Willingshausen where he became a Professor of history painting at the Kassel Academy. In 1842, two years after his first wife's death, he married the daughter of Reform theologian .

Death

In 1863, he died of pneumonia in Kassel.

Legacy

In 2012, the city of Hanau has awarded the "Ludwig Emil Grimm Prize" to young artists. In 2014, a life-size bronze statue of him was dedicated there in front of the "Zum Riesen" hotel as a gift to the city from the hotel's owners, which was designed by the painter .

Writings

* ''Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben'' (Memoirs of My Life), edited with commentary by Adolf Stoll. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1911
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Selected works

File:L E Grimm Bäuerin aus Egern mit Kindern.jpg, Farmer's wife from Egern with her daughters (1813) File:Nürnberg Johannisfriedhof Ludwig Emil Grimm 001.jpg, The Johannisfriedhof in

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(1828) File:Kinder- und Hausmärchen Titel 2te Ausgabe Frontispiz.jpg, Frontispiece to Grimm's Fairy Tales (1819) File:Kassel Marstaellerplatz 1844.jpg, Marstaellerplatz in Kassel (1844) File:Brüder Grimm Doppelporträt 1843.jpg, Double portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm (1843)

References

* Herbert von Bose: ''Das Bild des Fremden im Werk von Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790-1863)'' (Images of the Strange in the Work of...) Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2007,

External links

* * * Brüder Grimm-Museum Kassel and Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaf

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