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Adrian Ludwig Richter (September 28, 1803June 19, 1884) was a German painter and
File:Ludwig Richter - Pool in the Riesengebirge - WGA19455.jpg, ''Pool in the Riesengebirge'' (1839)
File:Ludwig Richter - Bridal Procession in a Spring Landscape - WGA19454.jpg, ''Bridal Procession in a Spring Landscape'' (1847)
File:Ludwig Richter - Civitella (Evening) - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Civitella (Evening)'' (1827 - 1828)
Adrian Ludwig Richter (September 28, 1803June 19, 1884) was a German painter and etcher
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...
, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He was a representative of both Romanticism
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and Biedermeier
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styles.
He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work is described as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of Grimm, for whom he produced several woodcuts.
Life
He was born inDresden
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, the son of the engraver , from whom he received his training.
The interest of his uneventful life centres within the circle of his art. As a painter Richter aimed at a thorough blending of the figure element with the landscape and may be judged by the following examples: "Harvest Procession in the Campagna" (1833) and three others in the Leipzig Museum: "Ferry at the Schreckenstein" (1836) and "Bridal Procession in Springtime" (1847), in the Dresden Gallery; "View of the Riesengebirge" (1839), in the National Gallery, Berlin. One of his most notable protégés was Hermann Lungkwitz
Hermann Lungkwitz (1813–1891) was a 19th-century German-born Texas romantic landscape artist and photographer whose work became the first pictorial record of the Texas Hill Country.
Early life
Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz was born on March ...
.
Richter visited Italy
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from 1823 to 1826, and his ''Thunderstorm in the Sabine Mountains'' at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt is one of the rare Italian subjects from his brush.
From 1828 he worked as designer for the Meissen
Meissen (in German orthography: ''Meißen'', ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albre ...
factory, living in a house on Schlossbrucke, close to the castle and cathedral, from 1828 to 1836.Plaque on Schlossbrucke, Meissen
In 1841 he became professor and head of the landscape ''atelier'' at the Dresden Academy, (now Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
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). The Dresden Gallery owns one of his best and most characteristic paintings: ''Bridal Procession in a Spring Landscape''. An eye disease put a stop to the practice of his art in 1874;New International Encyclopedia
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History
''The New Inter ...
he was pensioned in 1877, and died at Loschwitz
Loschwitz is a borough (''Stadtbezirk'') of Dresden, Germany, incorporated in 1921. It consists of ten quarters (''Stadtteile''):
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, near Dresden.
Main Works
Among his 240etching
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s are about 140 views in Saxony, others of Salzburg
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The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...
, Rome, and the Campagna. His individuality is most completely revealed in his 3000 or more drawings. Of special charm are his illustrations for ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1841), for Musäus' ''Volksmärchen'' (1842) and for numerous other fairy tales, for the ''Goethe Album'' (1855), for Schiller
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's ''Glocke'' (1857), and those cyclical publications which reveal the most brilliant side of the artist's inexhaustible fancy, such as ''Beschauliches und Erbauliches'' (1851); ''Kinderleben'' (1852); ''Fürs Haus'' (1858–1861); ''Der gute Hirt'' (1860); ''Unser täglich Brot'' (1866); ''Bilder und Vignetten'' (1874).Publications
* His autobiography, ''Lebenserinnerungen eines deutschen Malers'', edited by his son Heinrich, (Twelfth edition, Frankfurt, 1905) * J. F. Hoff, (Dresden, 1877) * Johannes Erler, (Leipzig, 1897) * V. Mohn, (Bielefeld, 1898) * Atkinson, in ''Art Journal'' (London, 1885) * Lützow, ''Die vervielfältigende Kunst der Gegenwart'' (Vienna, 1886) *''Alte und neue Studenten-Lieder'' (Old and new Student Songs), and ''Alte und neue Volks-Lieder'' (Old and new Folk Songs), (Leipzig 1844-47) (together with Adolf Eduard Marschner).References
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