Charles Georg Lachs (1879-1972) was a
Bavaria
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Swedish
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visual artist
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. Specialising in
oil
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and
etching
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, his motifs ranged from
landscapes
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and
portrait
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s to humble
working class
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areas around ''
fin de siècle
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''
Stockholm
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.
Biography
Charles Lachs was born in 1879 in
Örebro
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to
Friedrichs Lachs
Carl Siegmund ''Friedrichs'' Lachs (1832-1910) was a Bavarian-Swedish brewmaster active in Sweden and the United States.
Friedrichs Lax was born on 9 January 1832 in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Kingdom of Bavaria. He immigrated to Halmstad, Sweden, in ...
, and Fredrika (née Lorentzon). He was the brother of
Charlotte Lachs, singer, and Alice
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. He married Ellen Lindelöw from
Ångermanland
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.
Lachs studied at
Tekniska skolan (future
Konstfack
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) 1894-1897, and at
Konstnärsförbundets målarskola 1900. In addition, he was tutored at the
etching
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school of
Axel Tallberg
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, and made study travels around the
United States
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, and the
German Empire
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. He shared
atelier
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with artists such as
Ivar Arosenius
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His father Henrik (1841-1901) was a railway engineer and Captain of the Road and Water Engineeri ...
, and
John Bauer.
Lachs is represented inter alia at the
National Library of Sweden
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, and
Stockholm City Museum
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.
References
* ''Södermalm med omnejd i bilder av Charles Lachs'' (Stockholmia förlag, 2009, ) by
Alice Rasmussen
*''
Svenskt konstnärslexikon
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)
*''Svenska konstnärer: biografisk handbok'', p. 285 (Väbo förlag, 1987)
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1879 births
1972 deaths
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19th-century German male artists
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19th-century German painters
20th-century German painters
German portrait painters
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