Paul Lauters or Paul Lauteri (16 July 1806,

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– 12 November 1875, Brussels), was a Belgian printmaker, illustrator and painter.Université de Liège
/ref> Lauters studied under the sculptor Charles Malaise (1775–1836) at the

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (french: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles (ARBA-ESA), nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel), is an art school established in B ...

from 1820 to 1823. From 1823 he worked for the Gouban & Dewasme-Pletinckx

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company at the same time as

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. In 1836 he taught at the École Royale de

Gravure Rotogravure (or gravure for short) is a type of intaglio printing process, which involves engraving the image onto an image carrier. In gravure printing, the image is engraved onto a cylinder because, like offset printing and flexography ...

. He collaborated with the painter

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in 1839, producing images of the abbey ruins at Villers-la-Ville. In 1840 Lauters produced illustrations for ''Les Aventures de

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'' and for ''Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart''. During this period François Stroobant was his student. In 1846 Lauters illustrated '' Le Juif errant''. In 1848 he was appointed professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Brussels. He illustrated several popular books including ''Les Environs de Bruxelles'' (12 lithographs) and ''La Légende de Thyl Uilenspiegel'' (woodcuts, 1868) by Charles de Coster. About 1872 Amédée Lynen (1852–1938) was his student. In 1874 he published ''Principes de paysages.''

Career timeline

*1820 : Enrolled at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. He studied in the workshop of Charles Malaise *1836 : Teaches at l'Ecole royale de gravure. He works with the printer and lithographer ''Gouban & Dewasme-Pletinckx'' *1840 : Drawings for ''The Adventures of

'' and
Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart
'. During this period François Stroobant is his pupil *1846: Drawings for "The Wandering Jew ( Le Juif errant)." *1848: Appointed professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles *1868: Founding member of the avant-gardist

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in Brussels *c1872 : Amédée Lynen is his student

References

Sources

* P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 407.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauters, Paul Painters of ruins Belgian landscape painters Belgian illustrators Flemish landscape painters 1806 births 1875 deaths 19th-century Belgian painters 19th-century Belgian male artists