Munich of Richard Zimmermann; studied from nature in the Bavarian Alps, visited France in 1861 and 1864, studying and copying in the Louvre. Especially attracted by Jules Dupré he followed him to Isle-Adam in the winter of 1864-65, then visited England, and returned via North Germany and Dresden. In 1869 he opened a special school for landscape painting and soon held a position similar to that of Piloty in history and genre; in 1873 he abandoned teaching, visited Holland, and in 1876 the Scotch Highlands. Honorary Member of Dresden (1868) and Munich (1877) Academies; medals in Vienna and Berlin. Works: Village near Habach (1855); Evening Landscape in Approaching Storm (1856); Stone Image with Chapel (1857); Starnberg Lake (1858); View near Dachau (1859); Summer Morning (1860); Evening on the Isar (1862); Coast near Étretat—Normandy, Evening on Canal near Schleissheim, Summer on High Plain (1863); Evening Landscape in Mecklenburg (1866); Autumn Morning, Avenue in a Fog, Village Street by Moonlight (1867); Moonlight on the Oise (1867), Dresden Gallery; View on the Elbe, View near Schleissheim (1868); Morning, Noon, Evening, Night, View on the Isar (1869); Potato Harvest (1870); Four Seasons (1871); Highway in Rain, Foggy Morning on Chiem Lake (1872); Strand at Scheveningen (1873); Winter Evening (1875); Beech Wood (1876); Evening on the Isar (1877), National Gallery, Berlin; Evening Landscape (1878), Munich Art Union; View near Giggenhausen (1881); Sunset on Scotch Coast, Stuttgart Gallery; Theresa Meadow (1882, last work), New Pinakothek, Munich.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 631; D. Kunstbl. (1882), 20; Illust. Zeitg. (1882), ii. 364; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 480; xviii. 23, 364; Vom Fels zum Meer (1883), 433.
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LIES, JOSEPH, born at Antwerp, July
8, 1821, died in 1865. Historical genre and
landscape painter, pupil of Nicaise de Keyser,
and of Hendrik Leys, whom he took, in
every respect, for his model; while not attaining
the same brilliancy of colouring, his
works attract more directly than those of
his master, through vividness of expression.
Studied also in Italy. Works: The Enemy
is near (1857), Prisoners of War, Antwerp
Museum; Justice of Boudewyn Hapkin,
The Trials of War, Brussels Museum; Erasmus
reproaching his Friend Holbein with
his Mode of Life.—Rooses (Reber), 471;
Reber-Pecht, iii. 87
LIESKE, KARL, born in Gross Schünau,
near Zittau, in 1816, died in Munich, March
21, 1878. Animal painter, pupil of Dresden
Academy; removed about 1839 to Munich,
where he was much benefited by the intercourse
with Theodor Horschelt. Works:
Horse Stable, Leaving the Alp (1843); Embarking
of Horses on the Inn (1845); Return
to Alp-Cottage (1847); Sumpter-Horses
at the Well (1854); From Hunter's Life
(1859); From the Bavarian Alps (1865);
Horses on the Inn (1871); Peasant's Horses
at Watering Place (1873); Landscape with
Animals and Figures, Saint Gall Museum.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xviii. 638.
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LIEVENS (Livens, Lyvins), JAN, born
at Leyden, Oct. 24,
1607, died at Amsterdam,
buried
June 8, 1674. Dutch
school; history and
portrait painter,
pupil of Joris Verschooten,
and at
Amsterdam of Pieter
Lastman, afterwards
greatly influenced by
Rembrandt; in 1631 was called to England,
where, during a residence of three years, he
painted the royal family and many persons
of distinction; after his return settled at
