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Julius Lange (17 August 1817, Darmstadt
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– 25 June 1878, Munich) was a German landscape painter.
Life and Work
Lange had three elder brothers, the scholar Georg Lange (1804–1843), the architect and painter Ludwig Lange, the publisher and bookseller Gustav Georg Lange (1812–1873), who all together edited since 1832 the series of ''Originalansichten der vornehmsten Städte in Deutschland, ihrer wichtigsten Dome, Kirchen und sonstigen Baudenkmäler alter und neuer Zeit'', to which he himself was contributing since 1836. In 1834, inspired by his older brother, the architect Ludwig Lange, he attended theAcademy of Fine Arts Munich
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...
as a historical painter. After only a short time, however, from 1836 to 1839, he switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy
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, becoming a landscape painter as student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (5 September 1807 in Jülich – 11 September 1863 in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Duchy of Jülich.
Biography
Schirmer was started as a student of ...
, whose support enabled him to establish himself in Munich since 1840.
Once there, his financial success was insured by a number of sizable commissions and stays abroad in Milan and Venice: the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia ordered a series of sketches to be used in their landscape painting classes and the Brera Academy in Milan requested two large canvases. While there, he sought out contacts at the Court and served as Art Instructor to the Archduchess Charlotte of Belgium until 1858. In 1850 he married Emilie Henriette Bettinger, they had one daughter, Elisabeth.
At that time, family affairs forced him to return to Munich and, once again, he made contacts with royalty. Since 1868, he held the position of a court painter in Munich, and painted many works for both King Maximilian II and his son King Ludwig II as well as interior design studies for the royal castles at Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof
Linderhof Palace (german: Schloss Linderhof) is a Schloss in Germany, in southwest Bavaria near the village of Ettal. It is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the only one which he lived to see completed.
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As his older brother Ludwig Lange, he is buried on the Old South Cemetery (Alter Südfriedhof
The Alter Südfriedhof (''Old South Cemetery'') also known as "Alter Südlicher Friedhof" is a cemetery in Munich, Germany. It was founded by Duke Albrecht V as a plague cemetery in 1563 about half a kilometer south of the Sendlinger Ga ...
) in Munich.
References
Further reading
* Alexander Rauch: ''Schloss Herrenchiemsee - Räume und Symbole'', München-Berlin, Köhler und Amelang, 1993 * Alexander Rauch: ''Schloss Herrenchiemsee - Bildband'', Köhler und Amelang, 1995External links
Works by Lange @ Mutual Art
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