Edouard frederic wilhelm richter in the harem

Édouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter (18 June 1844,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

- 4 March 1913, Paris) was a French painter who specialized in

genre Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...

and Orientalist scenes.

Biography

His father was German and his mother was Dutch. He began his artistic studies at the

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague The Royal Academy of Art (, KABK) is an art and design academy in The Hague, offering programs at both the Education in the Netherlands, HBO bachelor's and master's levels, as well as PhD programs. Succeeding the ''Haagsche Teeken-Academie'' (pa ...

, followed by studies at the

Académie des Beaux-Arts The (; ) is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the . The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect. Background The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a me ...

in Paris with

Ernest Hébert Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (; 3 November 1817 – 5 December 1908) was a French academic painter. Biography Hébert was born in Grenoble, son of a notary in Grenoble, and moved in 1835 to Paris to study law. He simultaneously took ar ...

and

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (; 20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 ...

. After completing his studies, he remained in Paris. His first exhibition took place in 1866. In addition to his popular Orientalist paintings, he produced numerous portraits. Some of his works may be seen at the .

Gallery

File:Édouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter - Lady Standing before an Open Window - 60.003 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum.jpg, Lady Standing before an Open Window, 1868 File:Othello by E.F.W. Richter (1880-1, Kirklees).jpg,

Othello ''The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice'', often shortened to ''Othello'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulat ...

, 1880-1881 File:Edouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter - Orientalin - 6570 - Kunsthistorisches Museum.jpg, Orientalin, 1875 File:Edouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter - Distração do sultão.jpg, The Sultan's amusement File:Edouard Frédéric Richter Im Atelier des Künstlers.jpg, In the artist's studio, 1913 File:Edouard Fredric Wilhelm Richter - The winter bride.jpg, The winter bride File:Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter - The final decision.jpg, The final decision, before 1913 File:Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter - Scheherazade.jpg, Scheherazade, 1913 File:Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter - Oriental beauty by a window.jpg, Oriental beauty by a window, 1913

Sources

*''La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité'', Bureaux de la Gazette des beaux-arts, 1913.

External links

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