Adalbert Franz Eugen Begas (8 March 1836,

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– 21 January 1888,

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) was a German painter.

Life

He was the third son of painter Carl Joseph Begas. Because of his drawing skills, his father encouraged him to become an engraver and sent him to study at the Prussian Academy of Art with the copper engraver and

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

. In 1849, he went to Paris to complete his studies. His encounters with the works of the old masters there led to his decision to become a painter instead. In 1862, he followed his brother, the sculptor

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to the

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, where he found work in the studios of

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Adalbert Begas
', in: Hermann Alex. Müller: ''Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon''. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882 He took a study trip to Italy in 1864, where he was influenced by paintings of the

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. On his return to Berlin, he earned his living primarily as a portrait painter, but was more enthusiastic about producing dreamy

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scenes and idealized (often

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) female figures. In 1877, he married the landscape and architecture painter Luise von Parmentier. The couple made frequent visits to Italy (especially

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and Venice), inspiring him to make his genre scenes more realistic and colorful. He died during one of these trips of an unspecified

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disorder.

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ArtNet: More works by Begas

Begas Haus
@ Museum für Kunst und Regionalgeschichte Heinsberg. {{DEFAULTSORT:Begas, Adalbert 1836 births 1888 deaths Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 19th-century German painters German male painters 19th-century German male artists German people of Belgian descent

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