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Ludwig Emil Grimm

German painter (1790–1863)

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name	Ludwig Emil Grimm
image	Ludwig Emil Grimm 1813.jpg
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birth_place	Hanau, Hesse-Kassel
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death_place	Kassel, Electorate of Hesse
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known_for	Painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver
notable_works	Farmer's wife from Egern with her daughters (1813), Frontispiece to Grimm's Fairy Tales (1819), The Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg (1828), Double portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm (1843), Marstaellerplatz in Kassel (1844)
parents	Philipp Grimm (father)
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Dorothea Grimm (mother) Wilhelm Grimm (brother) Herman Grimm (nephew) Ludwig Hassenpflug (brother-in-law)

Ludwig Emil Grimm (14 March 1790 – 4 April 1863) was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver.

Early life

Grimm was born in Hanau, in 1790. His brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were linguists, lexicographers and folklorists, famous as the Brothers Grimm.{{cite web |access-date=2022-08-24

Education

Grimm's 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 year 1814, he worked as an officer in the campaign against Napoleon.

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).

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 Göttingen.

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 (Digitalized).

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 Nuremberg (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,

References

(2009). "Die Brüder Grimm: Eine Biographie". Rowohlt Verlag GmbH.
{{NDB. 7. 81. 82. Grimm, Ludwig Emil. Heinz H. Biehn. 118697781
{{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. 9. 689. 690. Grimm, Ludwig Emil. ADB:Grimm, Ludwig Emil

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