August Weber (1817–1873) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school.
Weber began his studies as a landscape painter in Frankfurt at the painter Heinrich Rosenkranz and continued in 1835 his studies at the court painter Johann Heinrich Schilbach in Darmstadt, then he studied at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt and moved in the autumn of 1838 to Düsseldorf. He became superior there a professor, among his students were Theodor Martens and John Robinson Tait. In 1858 he brought Jacob Maurer and Anton Burger from Frankfurt to Düsseldorf.
In 1844 he was a co-founder of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists and a fanatic of the Painting Council (Malkasten). In 1863 he became an honorary devotee of the Düsseldorfer Künstler-Liedertafel, and in 1864 he was awarded the title of honorary master of the Free German High Foundation for Science, Arts and General Education (Deutsches Hochstift) in Frankfurt. Weber had been married past 1844; His deserted daughter died in 1857. He died of pneumonia upon 9 September 1873.
Weber did not follow the reachable art, but proverb it as an tool for visualizing fantasies and poetic thoughts. The idealistic overall effect had to be attributed over whatever effects and details, exceptions were natural phenomena such as the moonlight or the evening landscape. In the literature, he is next referred to as “Moonshine-Weber”. Beside landscape paintings, he as a consequence created drawings and watercolors, as with ease as some lithographs.
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