Great Painters Art Galleries: Jul 31, 2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Art Galleries!

Two new painters. Hans Baldung and Ludolf Bakhuizen.

The Three Kings Altarpiece. Art of Hans Baldung.

Art of Hans Baldung

The Three Kings Altarpiece-1507

Art of Hans Baldung: The Nativity

Art of Hans Baldung

The Nativity-1510

Hans Baldung Art Gallery: The Lamentation

Hans Baldung Art Gallery

The Lamentation-1515

The Knight, the Young Girl and Death. Hans Baldung Art.

Hans Baldung Art Gallery

The Knight, the Young Girl and Death

Portrait of a Lady. Hans Baldung Art Gallery.

Hans Baldung Art Gallery

Portrait of a Lady-1530

Hans Baldung Art Gallery: Ludwig Count von Löwenstein

Hans Baldung Online Art Gallery

Ludwig Count von Löwenstein-1513

Hans Baldung

Hans Baldung

Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. 1484–1545) was a German Renaissance artist in painting and printmaking in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.

Hans Baldung Art

Hans Baldung Biography

The son of a lawyer, he was born Hans Baldung at Schwäbisch Gmünd in Swabia, Germany and moved to Strassburg (now Strasbourg) in 1484. He was the only male member of his family not to attend university, a background unusual for an artist at the time. His uncle became a doctor to the Emperor. He spent the greater part of his life at Strassburg and Freiburg im Breisgau. Grien joined Dürer's Nuremberg workshop in 1503, likely following initial training in Strassburg, and stayed until 1507. He seems to have been left in charge of the workshop during Dürer's second trip to Italy. It is presumed that he acquired his nickname of "Grien" (meaning "green") in Nuremberg; the workshop seems to have had three Hanses in it at one point. He later included it in his monogram, and it has also been suggested that it came from "grienhals", a German word for witch. In his later trip to the Netherlands in 1521 Dürer's diary shows that he took with him and sold prints by Baldung. On Dürer's death Baldung was sent a lock of his hair, which suggests a close friendship.

In 1509 Baldung purchased a citizenship of the city of Strassburg (then a German city, now in France), and lived there till 1513. He then moved to Freiburg im Breisgau after being contacted to paint a large altarpiece for the Freiburg Münster, which he finished in 1516 (still in situ). He returned to Strassburg in 1517, and died as a member of the town council in 1545. He had married Margarethe Herlin, from a prominent family in the city, and owned a number of properties.

The earliest pictures assigned to him by some are altar-pieces with the monogram H. B. interlaced, and the date of 1496, in the monastery chapel of Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden. Another early work is a portrait of the emperor Maximilian, drawn in 1501 on a leaf of a sketch-book now in the print-room at Karlsruhe. "The Martyrdom of St Sebastian and the Epiphany" (now Berlin, 1507), were painted for the market-church of Halle in Saxony.

Baldung's prints, though Düreresque, are very individual in style, and often in subject. They show little direct Italian influence. His paintings are less important than his prints. He worked mainly in woodcut, although he made six engravings, one very fine. He joined in the fashion for chiaroscuro woodcuts, adding a tone block to a woodcut of 1510. Most of his hundreds of woodcuts were commissioned for books, as was usual at the time; his "single-leaf" woodcuts (i.e. prints not for book illustration) are fewer than 100, though no two catalogues agree as to the exact number.

He was extremely interested in witches and made many images of them in different media, including several very beautiful drawings finished with bodycolour, which are more erotic than his treatments in other techniques.

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric (hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism), whilst his ornamental style—profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously "German" strain of contemporary limewood sculptors—is equally distinctive. Though Baldung has been commonly called the Correggio of the north, his compositions are a curious medley of glaring and heterogeneous colours, in which pure black is contrasted with pale yellow, dirty grey, impure red and glowing green. Flesh is a mere glaze under which the features are indicated by lines. (1911)

His works are notable for their individualistic departure from the Renaissance composure of his model, Dürer, for the wild and fantastic strength that some of them display, and for their remarkable themes. In the field of painting, his Eve, the Serpent and Death (National Museum of Canada) shows his strengths well. There is special force in the "Death and the Maiden" panel of 1517 (Basel), in the "Weather Witches" (Frankfurt), in the monumental panels of "Adam" and "Eve" (Madrid), and in his many powerful portraits. Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

As a portrait painter he is well known. He drew Charles V, as well as Maximilian; and his bust of Margrave Philip in the Munich Gallery tells us that he was connected with the reigning family of Baden as early as 1514. At a later period he had sittings with Margrave Christopher of Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their children, and the picture containing these portraits is still in the gallery at Karlsruhe. Like Dürer and Cranach, Baldung supported the Protestant Reformation. He was present at the diet of Augsburg in 1518, and one of his woodcuts represents Luther in quasi-saintly guise, under the protection of (or being inspired by) the Holy Spirit, which hovers over him in the shape of a dove.

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Henry Bacon Art: The Tourist and the Fisherwoman

Henry Bacon Art

The Tourist and the Fisherwoman-1870

The Peasant Girl. Henry Bacon Art Gallery.

Henry Bacon Art

Painting: The Peasant Girl-1883

The Departure. Henry Bacon Art Gallery.

Henry Bacon Art Gallery

Painting: The Departure-1879

The Art of Henry Bacon: Repose

Henry Bacon Art Gallery

Repose

Henry Bacon Art Gallery: Pay Attention

Henry Bacon Art Gallery

Pay Attention

Henry Bacon Art Gallery: On Shipboard

Henry Bacon Art Gallery

Painting: On Shipboard

Hauling a Ship. Henry Bacon Art Gallery.

Henry Bacon Art Gallery

Hauling a Ship

Henry Bacon Art Gallery: Beach at Etretat

Henry Bacon Art Gallery

Painting: Beach at Etretat-1881

Along the Seine. Henry Bacon Art Gallery.

Henry Bacon Art Gallery

Along the Seine

Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon (1839 in Haverhill, Massachusetts – 13 March 1912 in Cairo) was an American painter and author.

Henry A. Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army on 16 July 1861[2] and acted as a field artist for Frank Leslie's Weekly while he served as a soldier within the 13th Massachusetts Infantry. Badly wounded at Bull Run, he was discharged on 19 December 1862.

In 1864, he went to Paris, with his first wife Elizabeth Lord, to study figure painting. He was admitted to the National School of Fine Arts and was one of Alexandre Cabanel's scholars.

Bacon died in Cairo, Egypt in 1912.

Henry Bacon Art

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New online art gallery.

An oline art gallery of Ludolf Bakhuizen.

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery: View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam (1673)

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery: The Storm

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: The Storm

Ludolf Bakhuizen Work of Art: Small Dutch Vessels

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: Small Dutch Vessels

Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast. Ludolf Bakhuizen Art.

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting-Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast

The Art of Ludolf Bakhuizen: Ships in a Storm

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: Ships in a Storm-1667

Four Days Battle. Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery.

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: Four Days Battle-1666

Dutch Vessels on the Sea at Amsterdam. Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery.

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: Dutch Vessels on the Sea at Amsterdam-1708

Boats in a Storm. Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery.

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: Boats in a Storm-1696

Art of Ludolf Bakhuizen: Battle of Vigo Bay

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Battle of Vigo Bay-1702

A Turbulent Sea with Ships. Ludolf Bakhuizen Art.

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art Gallery

Painting: A Turbulent Sea with Ships-1797

Ludolf Bakhuizen

Ludolf Bakhuizen

Ludolf Bakhuizen (or Backhuysen) (December 28, 1630 – November 17, 1708) was a German-born Dutch Golden Age painter who was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after the two Willem van de Veldes (father and son) left for England in 1672.

Ludolf Bakhuizen Art

Ludolf Bakhuizen Biography

He was born in Emden, East Frisia, and came to Amsterdam in about 1650, working as a merchant's clerk and a calligrapher. He discovered so strong a genius for painting that he relinquished the business and devoted himself to art from the late 1650s, initially in pen drawings. He studied first under Allart van Everdingen and then under Hendrik Dubbels, two eminent masters of the time, and soon became celebrated for his sea-pieces, which often had rough seas.

He was an ardent student of nature, and frequently exposed himself on the sea in an open boat in order to study the effects of storms. His compositions, which are numerous, are nearly all variations of one subject, the sea, and in a style peculiarly his own, marked by intense realism or faithful imitation of nature. In his later years Bakhuizen employed his skills in etching; he also painted a few examples each of several other genres of painting, such as portraits, landscapes and genre paintings.

During his life Bakhuizen was visited by Cosimo III de' Medici, Peter the Great and also worked for various German princes. In 1699 he opened a gallery on the top floor of the famous Amsterdam townhall. After a visit to England he died in Amsterdam on November 17, 1708.

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