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Ferdinand Olivier The Holy Family obn a working Day (mk45) oil painting


The Holy Family obn a working Day (mk45)
Painting ID::  25966 		Artist: Ferdinand Olivier
Painting: The Holy Family obn a working Day (mk45)
Introduction: 1817 Oil on wood panel 21.5x31cm Schweinfurt,Sammlung Georg Schafer
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Ferdinand Olivier Elijah in the Wilderness oil painting


Elijah in the Wilderness
Painting ID::  52541 		Artist: Ferdinand Olivier
Painting: Elijah in the Wilderness
Introduction: 1831 Oil on canvas, 75 x 56 cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Ferdinand Olivier Meadow before Aigen oil painting


Meadow before Aigen
Painting ID::  62497 		Artist: Ferdinand Olivier
Painting: Meadow before Aigen
Introduction: Friday 1823 Lithograph, 195 x 272 mm - Ferdinand Olivier used a 'primitive' style of tight hatching, reminiscent of woodcuts by D?rer, to achieve the intense effect of his Meadow before Aigen, Friday. In fact Olivier made marvellous nature studies of twigs and leaves but looked for more than mere truth in his finished works. His drawing of Aigen was one of a series of scenes around Salzburg and Berchtesgaden made for a set of prints of the Seven Days of the Week, each of which was associated with a particular sentiment or experience. Author: OLIVIER, Ferdinand Title: Meadow before Aigen, Friday Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , German , landscape
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     German Painter, 1785-1841 Painter, draughtsman and lithographer, brother of Heinrich Olivier. The brothers' mother was a court opera singer in Dessau, and Ferdinand's later interest in the German medieval and Nazarene styles owed much to the intellectual climate at the Anhalt-Dessau court, where Leopold III Frederick Francis, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, had been the first German prince to introduce the Gothic Revival style. Olivier took up drawing in 1801-2 under the tuition of Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and the engraver Johann Christian Haldenwang (1777-1831). In 1802-3 he accompanied his father to Berlin, where he studied woodcut techniques under Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Unger (1755-1804) and may have attended August Wilhelm Schlegel's lectures on belles-lettres and art. It was here, at the latest, that he discovered Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (Berlin, 1797) by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck, and the latter's Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen (Berlin, 1798), two books of vital significance for the painting of the Romantic era. Having decided to make art their career, Ferdinand and his brother Heinrich spent two years (1804-6) in Dresden, where they copied the works of Ruisdael and Claude Lorrain in the art gallery during the summer months. Ferdinand also took lessons from Jacob Wilhelm Mechau (1745-1808) and Carl Ludwig Kaaz, both painters of idealized landscapes, and he was probably introduced to the work of Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich by Friedrich August von Klinkowström (1778-1835), a friend of Runge. In June 1807 Ferdinand's excellent knowledge of French led to his appointment as embassy secretary in Paris, where Heinrich soon joined him. However, after just a few weeks he gave up his diplomatic career in order to devote himself to a study of the Musee Napoleon, which at that time housed art treasures pillaged from all parts of Europe. Ferdinand and Heinrich jointly produced three paintings for Leopold III Frederick Francis of Anhalt-Dessau: a portrait of Napoleon on Horseback (c.1809; W?rlitz, Schloss), and a Last Supper and Baptism (1809-10; Werlitz, Evangel. Ch.) for the Gothic Revival church in Werlitz. Although these last two were supposed to be copies after the 'old German school', the Olivier brothers in fact used 15th- and 16th-century Dutch and Flemish models to create original compositions. At the end of 1809 they returned to Dessau. . Related Artists to Ferdinand Olivier : | Georg Andreas Hoffmann | Christoph jacobsz.van der Lamen | Carl Philipp Fohr | Willem Buytewech | Israel Silvestre |

 

 

 
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