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Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852) was a German historical and portrait painter.
Life
Bruckmann was born at
Reutlingen
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in 1806.
[ From 1826 he studied painting under ]Georg Friedrich Eberhard
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at Stuttgart, and in 1827–29 he studied at Munich, mostly under Heinrich von Hess. From the autumn of 1829 until 1832 he lived in Rome, where he painted ''Barbarossa's Body Drawn out of the Calycadnus'' (Staatsgallerie Stuttgart), which he sent back to Germany. He spent the years 1833–39 back in Munich.[ In 1833 he painted fourteen pictures at the royal palace at Munich, showing subjects from the poems of ]Theocritus
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, partly from his own designs, and partly from those of Hess.[ Some of his most notable easel paintings, such as the ''Women of Weinsberg'' (Staatsgallerie, Stuttgart ), and ''The Maiden from Afar'' (from ]Schiller
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's "Das Madchen aus der Fremde"), are from this time.[
From 1840 Bruckmann devoted himself almost entirely to portrait painting, working mostly in Stuttgart, but also in Ulm, Augsburg, Zurich, and elsewhere. He had become an ardent and self-sacrificing supporter of the political and religious reformist Friedrich Rohmer, to the disadvantage of his artistic career in Munich. He married Rohmer's sister in 1843. His only larger works from this later period were ''Thusnelda in der Gefangenschaft '' ("The Imprisonment of Thusnelda") ( Staatsgallerie, Stuttgart) and a series of frescoes in the hall of the art school at Stuttgart, showing the birth of Venus, St Luke, and an allegory of the three visual arts.][ The effects of a bad head injury, caused by a carriage accident in 1835,] and many artistic and political disappointments, led to his suicide on 9 February 1852.
See also
* List of German painters
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
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1806 births
1852 deaths
19th-century German painters
German male painters
People from Reutlingen
19th-century German male artists
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