{{Short description|German-Danish landscape painter}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Louis Gurlitt | image = Louis Gurlitt by monogrammist AF.jpg | alt = Louis Gurlitt | caption = Louis Gurlitt | birth_name = Heinrich Louis Theodor Gurlitt | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1812|03|08}} | birth_place = Altona, Holstein | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1897|11|19|1812|03|08}} | death_place = Naundorf near Schmiedeberg, Saxony | occupation = Landscape painter | parents = {{Plainlist| * Johan August Wilhem Gurlitt * Helene Eberstein }} | spouse = {{Plainlist| * Elise Saxild (1837–39) * Julie Bürger (1843–44) * Elisabeth Lewald (1847–1897) }} | children = {{Plainlist| * Wilhelm (second marriage) * 5 sons, 1 daughter in third marriage; among others: Cornelius, Fritz, Ludwig }} | relatives = Cornelius Gurlitt (brother) }}
'''Heinrich Louis Theodor Gurlitt''' (8 March 1812 – 19 September 1897), also called '''Louis Gurlitt''', was a Danish-German painter of landscapes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kern |first=Sepp |date=2003 |title=Gurlitt, (Heinrich) Louis |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T035722 |website=Grove Art Online |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> His brother was the composer Cornelius Gurlitt, and his son was the architect and art historian also called Cornelius Gurlitt.
==Biography== Gurlitt was born in Altona in Holstein to Johann August Wilhelm Gurlitt and Helene Eberstein, as part of the {{Interlanguage link|Gurlitt family|de|Gurlitt (Familie)}}. Altona was then one of the largest Danish towns, due to royal privileges allowing among other things freedom of religion. He received his first degree from Siegfried Detlev Bendixen's studio in Hamburg. Gurlitt studied in Copenhagen 1832 and won a silver medal in 1833, and exhibited here until about 1875. The academy recommended him as one of the ''most mature and talented students''. He married Elise Saxild in 1837. After her death in 1839 he married Julie Bürger, with whom he had a son. After his second wife's death in 1844 he married Elisabeth Lewald in 1847. After the marriage he lived in Austria and Germany. Being from Holsten, he chose the German side in the Schleswig conflicts between 1848 and 1864, when Prussia won the war and Schleswig-Holstein which was under the reign of the Danish king. He was known for his oil paintings. Gurlitt stayed well connected to Danish painters. But he was born Danish and then became German. The Royal collection of paintings owns six of his famous works. His painting titled ''Norwegian Landscape'' was auctioned at $22,174 in 2012 at Sotheby's London "European Paintings". A few of his Paintings are: *Landscape Near Salzburg *Monte Pellegrino *Bay Of Ieranto With Fishermen *North Italian Landscape
His Paintings were at "19<small>th</small> century paintings" and "19<small>th</small> century European paintings" auctions.
==Selected paintings== <gallery class="center" widths="155" heights="145"> File:Gurlitt Louis Wasserfall Museumsberg Flensburg Hans-Christansen-Haus.JPG|Norwegian Waterfall File:Gebirgslandschaft der Gegend von Dorf Tirol.jpg|Mountain landscape around Dorf Tirol File:Louis Gurlitt Abendstimmung bei Kullen.jpg|Evening at {{ill|Kullen (peninsula)|lt=Kullen|da|Kullen}} File:Gurlitt Abendstimmung am Nemisee.jpg|Evening Mood on Lake Nemi </gallery>
==See also== * List of German painters
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Louis Gurlitt}}
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