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August Bedřich Piepenhagen
August Friedrich Piepenhagen ( cs, August Bedřich Piepenhagen) (2 August 1791, Soldin - 27 September 1868, Prague) was a German landscape painter who spent most of his career in Prague. Biography He came from a humble family. As a child, he was apprenticed to a button and braid maker. After becoming a journeyman, he travelled throughout Europe and was particularly impressed by Switzerland, which led him to make some attempts at painting. He stayed briefly in Zürich and took some basic lessons from Johann Heinrich Wüest, but was otherwise entirely self-taught. The year 1811 found him in Prague, where he was hired by a button maker. After his employer died, he married his widow and took over the button business. Although successful at his trade, he began to paint more frequently and show his work at the shop. Soon, he was making more money from his paintings and had attracted the attention of the well-known landscape painter, Josef Navrátil. He also earned the admiration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Bedřich Piepenhagen (1791-1868)
August Friedrich Piepenhagen ( cs, August Bedřich Piepenhagen) (2 August 1791, Soldin - 27 September 1868, Prague) was a German landscape painter who spent most of his career in Prague. Biography He came from a humble family. As a child, he was apprenticed to a button and braid maker. After becoming a journeyman, he travelled throughout Europe and was particularly impressed by Switzerland, which led him to make some attempts at painting. He stayed briefly in Zürich and took some basic lessons from Johann Heinrich Wüest, but was otherwise entirely self-taught. The year 1811 found him in Prague, where he was hired by a button maker. After his employer died, he married his widow and took over the button business. Although successful at his trade, he began to paint more frequently and show his work at the shop. Soon, he was making more money from his paintings and had attracted the attention of the well-known landscape painter, Josef Navrátil. He also earned the admiration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olšany Cemetery
Olšany Cemeteries (''Olšanské hřbitovy'' in Czech, ''Wolschan'' in German) is the largest graveyard in Prague, Czech Republic, once laid out for as many as two million burials. The graveyard is particularly noted for its many remarkable art nouveau monuments.Marie vitochova Jindrichkjer and Jiri Vsetecka, ''Prague and Art Nouveau'', translation by Denis Rath and Mark Prescott, Prague: V Raji, 1995. History The Olšany Cemeteries were created in 1680 to accommodate plague victims who died en masse in Prague and needed to be buried quickly. In 1787, when the plague again struck the city, Emperor Joseph II banned the burial of bodies within Prague city limits and Olšany Cemeteries were declared the central graveyard for hygiene purposes. The Olšany necropolis consists of twelve cemeteries, including an Orthodox and a tiny Muslim section, the largest Jewish cemetery in the Czech Republic and military burial grounds. Among the thousands of military personnel buried at Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Myślibórz
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German Male Painters
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19th-century German Painters
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1868 Deaths
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1791 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England, to perform a series of concerts. * January 2 – Northwest Indian War: Big Bottom Massacre – The war begins in the Ohio Country, with this massacre. * January 12 – Holy Roman troops reenter Liège, heralding the end of the Liège Revolution, and the restoration of its Prince-Bishops. * January 25 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. * February 8 – The Bank of the United States, based in Philadelphia, is incorporated by the federal government with a 20-year charter and started with $10,000,000 capital.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p169 * February 21 – The United States opens diplomatic relations with Portugal. * March 2 – Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery Of Prague
The National Gallery Prague ( cz, Národní galerie Praha, NGP), formerly the National Gallery in Prague (), is a state-owned art gallery in Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine art in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The collections of the gallery are not housed in a single building, but are presented in a number of historic structures within the city of Prague, as well as other places. The largest of the gallery sites is the Trade Fair Palace (''Veletržní Palác''), which houses the National Gallery's collection of modern art. Other important exhibition spaces are located in the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, the Kinský Palace, the Salm Palace, the Schwarzenberg Palace, the Sternberg Palace, and the Wallenstein Riding School. Founded in 1796, it is one of the world's oldest public art galleries and one of the largest museums in Central Europe. History The history of the Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomáš Seidan
Tomáš Seidan (6 September 1830, in Prague – 4 December 1890, in Prague) was a Czech sculptor and art teacher. Biography He was one of nine children born to Antonín Seidan, an engraver in Prague's Old Town (Prague), Old Town. He began studying sculpture with the brothers, Josef Max, Josef and Emanuel Max. From 1843 to 1845, he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, where his primary teacher was the Genre art, genre painter, Christian Ruben. This was during a period when there were a series of educational reforms, favoring Realism (arts), Realism over Academicism. After 1849, he worked as a porcelain modeler in . In 1854, when the famous sculptor Václav Levý left for Rome, Seidan took over his workshop. There was, at that time, no sculpture studio at the Academy, so he gave private lessons. Some of his best-known students were Josef Mauder, Josef Václav Myslbek and Ladislav Šaloun. Myslbek would later assist Seidan with his works for the Arsenal (Vienna), Ars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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