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Eysen, Louis
(b Manchester, 23 Nov 1843; d Munich, 21 July 1899). German painter and engraver. His family, which had moved to England in the 1840s, returned to Frankfurt am Main in 1850. He studied wood engraving with Alexander Stix (1819–93) at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt and later achieved considerable success in this medium (e.g. Glade, 1868; see Zimmermann, p. 9). He was taught painting by Karl Hausmann (1825–86) and was influenced chiefly by contemporary French art. He first worked mainly in Berlin and then in Munich, where he met Otto Scholderer and Wilhelm Leibl, who painted his portrait (c. 1870; Frankfurt am Main, Städel. Kstinst.). He studied with Léon Bonnat in Paris from 1869 to 1870. In 1873 he settled at Kronberg, in the Taunus mountains, and after visiting Italy in 1876–7 he settled in Obermais, near Meran (now Merano), where he hoped the climate would cure his tuberculosis.
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