Andreas Borum


Andreas Borum was a German painter and lithographer who also worked in stone, and a collector.

Biography

Borum worked in Leipzig as a housepainter before receiving an education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
From 1829 to 1835 he led the "Hamburg Art Colony" in Munich, a group which included artists such as Jakob Gensler, Georg Haeselich, Marcus Haeselich, Franz Heesche, Victor Emil Janssen, Hermann Kauffmann, Johann Karl Koch, Joh. Ludwig Westermann, Wilhelm Friedrich Wulff and Wassermann.

Career

Kehr & Niessen

From 1835 to 1839 he was employed together with D. Leon, Eduard Gerhardt and Bonaventura Weiß at the "lithographic-artistic" institute of the Kehr brothers, sometimes called Kehr & Niessen, which was founded in Cologne by the lithographer Carl Kehr and his brother Johann Philipp Kehr.

Notable works

1839: Ausstellung von Produkten des Kunst- und Gewerbefleißes in Köln mit der “Die Heimkehr der Hirten”, Allgemeines Organ für Handel und Gewerbe und damit verwandte Gegenstände. Band 4. Wöchentliches Beiblatt zum Allgemeinen Organ, enthaltend die Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Gewerbe-Vereins zu Köln.