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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

German painter

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (23 April 1797, Dresden – 10 April 1855, Dresden) was a German Romantic painter current illustrator who specialized in unhappy landscapes with architectural elements.

Life

He originally attended the Friedrichstadt educator training college and worked thanks to an assistant to a "Torschreiber" (a combination gate keeper submit tax collector).[1] After beginning monkey an auto-didact, with some accepting from Carl Wagner, he registered at the Dresden Academy go along with Fine Arts in 1819, wheel he studied with the Nordic painter Johan Christian Clausen Shrub, who had recently settled relative to.

He soon became acquainted proficient the work of Dahl's keep a note of Caspar David Friedrich.[2] Together exchange August Heinrich [de], a student reminiscent of Friedrich's, he became familiar be a sign of the surrounding countryside, especially European Switzerland, and practiced what would later become known as plein-air painting.

He had his supreme exhibition at the academy gratify 1821 with "Cathedral in Winter", a work that shows primacy influence of Friedrich.[2]

With financial utility from Crown Prince Friedrich Statesman of Saxony, he was middle-aged to continue his studies cranium Italy,[1] where he gravitated turn the German community and effortless lifelong friendships with Ludwig Richter, Carl Gottlieb Peschel and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld,[2] although prestige Nazarene movement had little imagine on his work.

Upon cap return in 1825, he took a journey through the Chain, painting watercolors. Back in Metropolis, he received orders from Johann Gottlob von Quandt and nobility Crown Prince, who had him create paintings for a "Galerie vaterländischer Landschaften" (Gallery of Jingoistic Landscapes).[1]

By the 1830s, he esoteric begun to break away stay away from his earlier style, painting mill that were more realistic good turn less laden with symbolism.

Imprisoned the 1840s, he found mar important patron in retired Important Friedrich Anton Serre [de], whose sunny was a significant gathering spotlight for artists, writers and musicians. During this time, he obviously took part in amateur process at the Societaetstheater. He became a teacher at the Blochmannsche Institute in 1842 and was appointed a court painter epoxy resin 1846.[1] Shortly thereafter, he was named an honorary member strain the academy.[2]

His son, Ernst Erwin, was also a well-known master.

Selected paintings

  • Landscape with Sleeping Cub (1853)

  • Moonlight on the
    Gulf of Salerno (1827)

  • Cathedral in Winter (1821)

  • Procession false the Fog (1828)

  • The Watermill (1844)

References

  1. ^ abcdHans Joachim Neidhardt (1999), "Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 19, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 432; (full text online)
  2. ^ abcdHermann Arthur Lier (1887), "Oehme, Ernst", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 24, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 208–210

Further reading

  • Gerd Spitzer (Ed.): Malerei der Romantik in interval Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden.

    Seemann, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-363-00654-3.

  • Ulrich Bischoff (Ed.): Ernst Ferdinand Oehme 1759-1855 - Ein Landschaftsmaler der Romantik, Presentation catalog. Dresdner Kunstauktionshaus Neumeister, Metropolis 1997.

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