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Apr 12 2011
Waterfall by Tivoli
Academician / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Wasserfälle bei Tivoli” of 1819 by Johann Martin von Rohden. The artist was a native of Kassel who died in 1868 in Rome at the age of ninety years. He is one of the greatest German landscape painters and first visited Rome when he was seventeen. He was in Germany in 1811 where he visited Goethe and joined a reading group based in Kassel that was led by the brothers Grimm. He was back in Rome in 1812 where he married and converted to Roman Catholicism. He was influential as the first German painter to focus on landscapes and formed the German Academy in Rome. This typical masterpiece of his is in the Museum der bidenden Künste in Leipzig.
Apr 7 2011
Der Hintersee bei Berchtesgaden, Johann Nepomuk Ott
German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Hintersee by Berchtesgaden” of 1826 by Johann Nepomuk Ott. This masterpiece was produced by the Bavarian master when he was twenty-two years old. The beautiful Bavarian lake covers sixteen hectares near Ramsau. Its banks have high mountains to the west , meadows to the south and woods to the north and east. On calm days the neighboring mountain peaks are reflected on the still lake surface and this has drawn artists since early in the Nineteenth Century. Ott was one of the first. The artist died in 1870 and the original painting is 42 cm wide and 36 cm high.
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Oct 15 2010
Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent by Henry Fuseli, 1795
British / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This Swiss Neo-classical by Johann Heinrich Fuseli depicts a scene of the Norse god Thor fighting the dragon, or serpent, of Middlegard. This thundering God wielded a war-hammer in his various adventures protecting mankind from Dwarves and Dragons. Talismans crafted to represent Thor’s hammer were a popular means of showing devotion to the old gods in the face of Christian missionaries. This work by Fuseli was created in 1795 when the Swiss artist was fifty-four years old. He died in 1825.
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