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On Cotman´s Trail in Normandy
John Sell Cotman is mainly known for his groundbreaking retinal and neoclassical approach to landscape painting which showed him as an early precursor of Cezanne. In contrast, his huge body of etchings enjoys a rather bad reputation. It is said that his printed works, which he mainly executed in commission of his patron Dawson Turner, […]
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Me too in Verdun # 3 – On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
3) Verdun revisited In the circles of specialists in German studies, the political Goethe is regarded as “difficult”. His ambitions in this regard are often treated as fringe problem zones that can be neglected within the monumental, aesthetic whole comprised of creative writing and natural science, which one is accustomed to admiring him for. What […]
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Me too in Verdun # 2 – On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
II) The Old Empire Strikes Back Just a few months after the disastrous end of the campaign against France, Goethe once again functioned as a monarchist campaign propagandist – this time in putting down the Mainzer Republik, the first democratic state on German soil, which had been established with the support of the French revolutionary […]
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Me too in Verdun # 1. On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
I) The Campaign Against the New Insanity Was Goethe a war artist? The first section of the three-part historical essay, which sheds light on the drawing activities of the poet in connection with his political endeavours, focuses on his participation in the campaign of the monarchist First Coalition against revolutionary France in 1792. Only thirty […]
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World War I: Flanders III , “Kriegsbriefe”
At the age of over sixty, Theodor Rocholl ended his long career as a war artist taking part in the First World War. In his War Letters from the west front in Flanders, which were printed in 1916, he did not avoid describing fear and destruction. However, in the gouaches and watercolours of this propaganda […]
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World War I: Flanders II (Watercolours)
This portfolio with a small selection of watercolours, which Adolf Hitler painted in the course of his military service during World War I, was edited about 1935 by his official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. It is assumed that Hitler was involved in the editing process. Even so, shortly after the appearance he withdrew and stopped the […]
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Album of landscapes from the theatre of war (1870), Berlin – Hamburg, 1871
The portfolio with a total of thirty-six large-format depictions of abandoned battlefields of the Prussian-French War was published in autumn 1871, approximately half a year after the French surrender. It was printed in four of Germany’s leading lithographic establishments, including W. Korn & Co. in Berlin and Charles Fuchs in Hamburg. The refinement of the […]
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Bilder aus Syrien
Not translated: Die Schilderungen kontinentaleuropäischer Stadtlandschaften und Alltagssituationen des niederländischen Künstlers und Archäologen Theo de Feyter haben wir bereits in einem zurückliegenden Beitrag vorgestellt. In seiner aktuellen Ausstellung in der Amsterdamer Galerie De Rietlanden Exposities, die noch bis zum 18. Januar 2009 zu sehen ist, zeigt de Feyter nun Arbeiten, die in den letzten Jahren […]
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The pictorial diary of Christiaan Andriessen (1805 – 1808) (Exhibition / Ausstellung)
The Amsterdam City Archive shows an extensive selection of the drawn diary of the Amsterdam artist Christiaan Andriessen (1775-1846). He drew in his diary nearly every day until 1 janury 1807, after which he made one drawing a week. You can follow the artists family life as well as his professional accompishments with his use […]
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Laptop in Chinese
Matthias Reinhold attended a six-month course dealing with traditional Chinese painting at the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, in southeast China. He presents a report for the MePri on the teachings conveyed at the art academy in the field of tension between classical landscape painting and the present-day reality of life, and on the […]