{{short description|German painter}}
'''August Bausch''' (2 March 1818 – 28 February 1909) was a German genre, portrait and history painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
== Life == [[File:Hermann Deiters 1858.jpg|thumb|upright|{{center|''Hermann Deiters'', 1858}}]] [[File:Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander 1868 von August Bausch.jpg|thumb|upright|{{center|''Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander'', c. 1868}}]]
Bausch came from Bonn to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. From 1835 to 1839, Karl Ferdinand Sohn was his teacher there.<ref>[http://www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/rheinland/bestaende_duesseldorf/SachthematischesInventarSchuelerlistenderKunstakademie/index.php ''Findbuch 212.01.04 Schülerlisten der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411025023/http://www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/rheinland/bestaende_duesseldorf/SachthematischesInventarSchuelerlistenderKunstakademie/index.php |date=2018-04-11 }})</ref><ref>Museum Kunstpalast: ''Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule'' (Selection, as of November 2016), [https://www.kunstpalast.de/uploads/pdf/Knstlerliste-der-Dsseldorfer-Malerschule.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507173302/https://www.kunstpalast.de/uploads/pdf/Knstlerliste-der-Dsseldorfer-Malerschule.pdf |date=2021-05-07 }}</ref> After his studies, he worked in Düsseldorf and Bonn. In1839, he exhibited the picture ''Abraham and Isaac's sacrifice'' in Frankfurt. As a history painter, he attracted the attention of the art professor Rudolf Wiegmann with his paintings ''Gretchen and Martha (after Goethe's Faust)'' (1841) and ''Tempelritter auf der Morgenwache'' (1843).<ref>Rudolf Wiegmann: '' Die Königliche Kunst-Akademie zu Düsseldorf. Ihre Geschichte, Einrichtung und Wirksamkeit und die Düsseldorfer Künstler''. Publishing house of the Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, {{p.|238}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AcY- AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA238&dq=August+Bausch+Bonn&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDx4GH1sXfAhUHfFAKHSUtA1M4KBC7BQhIMAY#v=onepage&q=August%20Bausch%20Bonn&f=false ''Google Books''])</ref> However, Bausch made a name for himself as a portrait painter and portrait draughtsman in his home town of Bonn, where he especially created portraits of students,<ref>Sabine Gertrud Cremer: ''Nicolaus Christian Hohe (1798-1868). University drawing teacher in Bonn''. Lit, Bonner Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, vol. 16, Münster 2001, {{ISBN|978-3-8258-5550-5}}, {{p.|93}}</ref> mainly that of his nephew Hermann Deiters. Also well-known is his portrait of the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander from Bonn, painted around 1868.<ref>Ralph Burmester, Jörg Bradenahl: ''Die Vermessung des Himmels. An exhibition at the Deutsches Museum Bonn''. In ''Culture & Technology''. Issue 1/2010, {{p.|49}}, [https://www.deutsches-museum.de/assets/Verlag/Download/Kultur_und_Technik/2010/Kultur_Technik_2010_Heft1.pdf PDF]</ref>
== Work == * ''Der Heilige Servatius im Bischofsornat'', 1840<ref>[https://www.mariens-hilfe.org/tagesheilige-13-mai-hl-servatius/ ''Tagesheilige 13. Mai – Hl. Servatius''].</ref> * ''Orientalische Hafenstadt mit Dschunke und chinesischen Händlerbooten'', Öl auf Platte, 32 × 46 cm<ref>[https://de.artprice.com/artist/285463/august-bausch ''August Bausch''].</ref>
== Further reading == * Hermann Board: Bausch, August. In Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (ed.): ''Thieme-Becker''. Established by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker.. Vol. 3: Bassano–Bickham. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, {{p.|93}} (Textarchiv – Internet Archive). * Hans Paffrath / Museum Kunstpalast (ed.): ''Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule''. Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, {{ISBN|3-7654-3009-9}}, Anhang, p. 439.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bausch, August}} Category:German history painters Category:German genre painters Category:German portrait painters Category:German draughtsmen Category:1818 births Category:1909 deaths Category:Artists from Bonn Category:Painters from North Rhine-Westphalia