davidgmarin:

Anselm Feuerbach - (self)portraits - 19th century

Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school.

Feuerbach was born at Speyer, the son of the well-known archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach and the grandson of the legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.

After having passed through the art schools of Düsseldorf and Munich, he went to Antwerp and subsequently to Paris, where he benefited by the teaching of Couture, and produced his first masterpiece, Hafiz at the Fountain in 1852. He subsequently worked at Karlsruhe, and then Venice. In Venice, he fell under the spell of the greatest school of colourists, and several of his work demonstrate a close study of the Italian masters. He then proceeded to Rome and then Vienna.

In Vienna, he associated with Johannes Brahms. In 1873, he became professor in the Vienna Academy, but disappointed with the reception given in Vienna to his design of The Fall of the Titans for the ceiling of the new Artists’ House Museum, he went to live in Venice, where he died in 1880. After his death, Brahms composed Nänie, a piece for chorus and orchestra, in his memory.

He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

heaveninawildflower:

Anselm Feuerbach - Paolo and Francesca (1864)

oil on canvas.

Schackgalerie

Photograph by

user:Sailko Wikimedia.

theblackcatzon:

Anselm Feuerbach - nude

widowspeaktales:

Anselm Feuerbach - Gaea - 1875

that-bear:

 Anselm Feuerbach - Portrait of Nanna Risi

isluma:

Anselm Feuerbach - La Muerte del Pietro Aretino, 1854,

Pietro Aretino (20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.

fleurdulys:

Anselm Feuerbach - Iphigenie - 1871

Iphigenia (pron.: /ɪfɨdʒɨˈnaɪ.ə/; Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια, Iphigeneia) is a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology, whom Agamemnon is commanded to kill as a sacrifice to allow his ships to sail to Troy. In Attic accounts, her name means “strong-born”, “born to strength”, or “she who causes the birth of strong offspring.”

arcadiaart:

Anselm Feuerbach (German, 1829-80), “Medea an der Urne”.

fleurdulys:

Anselm Feuerbach - The Judgement of Paris - 1870

arcadiaart:

Anselm Feuerbach (German, 1829-80), “Portrait of Anna Risi as a Classic Roman Woman” (1883).

Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school.