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Mar 4 2011
The Shepherd Struck by Lightning by Jacob Becker, 1844
Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Shepherd Struck by Lightning” by Jacob Becker of 1844. Jacob Becker was a German landscape artist who produced this masterpiece at the age of thirty-four. He studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art for the eight years ending in 1841. The next year he became a professor of genre and landscape painting at the Städel in Frankfurt. He retained that position until his death in 1872 having moved his focus to subjects in the countryside often concentrating on the problems of the peasants. He was very influential in the development of German art in the Nineteenth Century. This masterpiece is in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.
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Feb 21 2011
Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze, 1851
American / German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze of 1851. This wonderful dramatic historical scene was first painted in 1849 and housed in the Bremen Kunsthalle. It was damaged by fire in 1850 and destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942. This version was painted in 1850 and put on display in New York in October, 1851. It was bought by Marshall O. Roberts and has been re-created and reproduced many times. The original of this version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Emanuel Leutze was a Germany artist who was thirty-three when he first painted this scene. Brought to America as a child, he early began to paint portraits and supported himself with them after his father died when he was fourteen. He obtained sufficient orders when he was twenty-four to study in Dusseldorf and established his reputation in Europe in the following years. He settled in Dusseldorf where he lived for fourteen years. He returned to America in 1859 and gained a wide reputation as a creation of works of patriotic emotionalism. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1868.
Feb 20 2011
Waterfall in Småland, Marcus Larson, 1856
Academician / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Waterfall in Småland” by Marcus Larson of 1856. This wonderful landscape shows a scene located in southern Sweden. It was created by Simeon Marcus Larson, one of Sweden’s greatest nineteenth century painters. This is a fine example of his propensity to depict violent skies and dramatic landscapes featuring violent water courses. He attended the Royal Swedish Academy for Arts when his talents for drawing were noticed by his employer. He graduated by 1848 when he was twenty-three. Thereafter he taught painting and continued to study under various painters. Abroad in Dusseldorf and Paris, he began drawing commissions and returned to Sweden in 1858 and built a villa. It burned in 1860 and he left for Helsinki, St. Petersburg and London. He died of tuberculosis in London at the age of thirty-nine. This masterpiece is the National Museum in Stockholm.
Nov 27 2010
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains by Albert Bierstadt, 1866
Academician / American / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Albert Bierstadt’s masterpiece “A Storm in the Rocky Mountains” of 1866. The artist created the work at the age of thirty-six having been born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to Massachusetts when he was three years old and he began painting in New England at an early age. He studied painting in Dusseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857 and first ventured to the western United States in 1859 and returned four years later. He was a member of the Hudson River School. He was popular in his day and remains popular today though critics have commented on his use of over-large canvases and excessive Romanticism. The original of this work is in the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
Nov 18 2010
Hoybat pa Fjorden by Ludvig Skramstad, 1878
German / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece by Ludvig Skramstadt was created when the Norwegian artist was twenty-two years old. The Hoybat pa Fjorden is a wonderful depiction of a hayboat delivering precious hay to a farmer. The boat is dwarfed by the mighty majesty of a Norwegian fjord. The artist migrated to Germany where he studied in Dusseldorf and then later moved to Drobak. In 1902 he moved to Munich where he died in 1912.
Oct 31 2010
Hoybat pa Fjorden by Ludvig Skramstad, 1878
Academician / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece by Ludvig Skramstadt was created when the Norwegian artist was twenty-two years old. The Hoybat pa Fjorden is a wonderful depiction of what appears to be fishermen dwarfed by the mighty majesty of a Norwegian fjord. The artist migrated to Germany where he studied in Dusseldorf and then later moved to Drobak. In 1902 he moved to Munich where he died in 1912.
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