August Löffler (May 24, 1822 – January 19, 1866) was a German
painter
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Löffler was born in
Munich, and studied under
Heinrich Adam and
Carl Rottmann
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, and first painted scenes of Isarthal, near Munich. In 1846 he traveled to
Istria
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and upper
Italy, and in 1849 to the
Middle East. Here he painted a noteworthy panorama of
Jerusalem, and traveled through
Egypt,
Palestine
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, and
Asia Minor, returning to Munich at the end of 1850. In 1851 he went to
Dresden and then
Berlin, and in the following years painted a number of landscapes of Palestine and
Greece for the kings of
Prussia and
Württemberg.
In 1853 he accompanied
Ludwig Thiersch to Greece and made a number of
studies
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, executing a large painting, ''Delphi'', upon his return. In 1856 he traveled to
Venice
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and
Milan to study the
Old Masters. In 1857 he painted Jerusalem,
Bethlehem,
Jafa,
Saba,
Damascus
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, and the
Red Sea for the king of Württemberg, and drew the
cartoon
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s ''Die Findung Moses and ''Gott erscheint dem Elias auf dem Berg Horeb''. In 1863 he painted views of
Athens from
Kolonos and Jerusalem from the
Mount of Olives, as well as four large
murals — of
Memphis, Jerusalem, Athens, and
Rome — for the society halls in
Kochel. He died in 1866 in Munich.
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Note
*''This article, or an earlier version, was translated from the 4th edition of the ''Meyers Konversations-Lexikon'' (1890), a publication now in the public domain.''
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1822 births
1866 deaths
19th-century German painters
German male painters
Painters from Munich
19th-century German male artists