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Patrick Von Kalckreuth
Patrick von Kalckreuth (1892–1970), born Patrick Dunbar, was a leading German maritime painter. He was born Patrick Dunbar and was the son of a German naval officer. After a brief career as a seaman, he enrolled in the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and studied with the German painter Hugo Schnars-Alquist. artnet.com Kalckreuth lived in both Düsseldorf and Berlin, but frequently spent summers by the in . His works generally feature scenes from the North Sea, both scenes of waves crashing along beaches and ships at sea. Kalckreuth's early works, primaril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritime Painter
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. In practice the term often covers art showing shipping on rivers and estuaries, beach scenes and all art showing boats, without any rigid distinction - for practical reasons subjects that can be drawn or painted from dry land in fact feature strongly in the genre."Grove": Cordingley, D., ''Marine art'' in Grove Art Online. Accessed April 2, 2010 Strictly speaking "maritime art" should always include some element of human seafaring, whereas "marine art" would also include pure seascapes with no human element, though this distinction may not be observed in practice. Ships and boats have been included in art from almost the earliest times, but marine art only began to become a distinct genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
