August Leu

August Wilhelm Leu (24 March 1818 – 20 July 1897) was a German landscape painter of the Romantic school.

He was a pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, a landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school.

[1] He lived for a time in Brussels, then returned to Düsseldorf;[2] in 1855 he received an honourable mention at the Paris Exposition.

[5][6] He received several gold medals in Berlin and was awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold.

[5] His son, also named August Leu (1852–76) studied under him and was a landscape and animal painter.