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Carl Adloff
Carl (Karl) Adloff (12 January 1819 – 16 April 1863) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Adloff was the child of Franz Joseph Adloff (1786-1832) and Anna Margaretha Adloff, ''née'' Kaimer (1784-1846). From 1833 to 1843, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where in 1836 he took the class of Landscape painting, Landschaftsmaler under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. and attended the architecture class under Rudolf Wiegmann in 1840/1841. In the student lists of the Meisterklasse (Hochschule), Meisterklasse, he was listed as an architectural and landscape painter from 1840 to 1843. In his choice of motifs, he favoured - following the Dutch Golden Age painting - the Dutch landscape; he created beach, harbour, canal and veduta, city views, whose architecture he captured in detail and in a fine painting style. He often painted Marine art, seascapes, which are bathed in a Romanticism, romantic mood of tranquillity by moonlight, mornin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf School Of Painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State Art Academy) during the 1830s and 1840s, when the Academy was directed by the painter Wilhelm von Schadow. About The work of the Düsseldorf School is characterized by finely detailed yet fanciful landscapes, often with religious or allegorical stories set in the landscapes. Major members of the Düsseldorf School advocated "plein air painting", and tended to use a palette with relatively subdued and even colors. The Düsseldorf School derived from and was a part of the German Romantic movement. Prominent members of the Düsselorf School included von Schadow, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Andreas Achenbach, Hans Fredrik Gude, Adolph Tidemand, Oswald Achenbach, and Adolf Schrödter. The Düsseldorf School had a significant influence on the Hudson River School in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
