Carl Johann Baehr - Bildnis Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (23 April 1797,

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– 10 April 1855, Dresden) was a German

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painter and illustrator who specialized in moody landscapes with architectural elements.

Life

He originally attended the

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teacher training college and worked as an assistant to a "Torschreiber" (a combination gate keeper and tax collector). After beginning as an

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, with some help from

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, he enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1819, where he studied with the Danish painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, who had recently settled there. He soon became acquainted with the work of Dahl's friend

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. Together with , a student of Friedrich's, he became familiar with the surrounding countryside, especially Saxon Switzerland, and practiced what would later become known as plein-air painting. He had his first exhibition at the academy in 1821 with "Cathedral in Winter", a work that shows the influence of Friedrich. With financial assistance from Crown Prince Friedrich Augustus of Saxony, he was able to continue his studies in Italy, where he gravitated towards the German community and made lifelong friendships with

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, Carl Gottlieb Peschel and

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (26 March 1794 – 24 May 1872) () was a German painter, chiefly of Biblical subjects. As a young man he associated with the painters of the Nazarene movement who revived the florid Renaissance style in religious ar ...

, although the Nazarene movement had little influence on his work. Upon his return in 1825, he took a journey through the Alps, painting watercolors. Back in Dresden, he received orders from Johann Gottlob von Quandt and the Crown Prince, who had him create paintings for a "Galerie vaterländischer Landschaften" (Gallery of Patriotic Landscapes). By the 1830s, he had begun to break away from his earlier style, painting works that were more realistic and less laden with symbolism. In the 1840s, he found an important patron in retired Major , whose home was a significant gathering point for artists, writers and musicians. During this time, he apparently took part in amateur performances at the

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. He became a teacher at the Blochmannsche Institute in 1842 and was appointed a

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in 1846. Shortly thereafter, he was named an honorary member of the academy. His son, Ernst Erwin, was also a well-known painter.

Selected paintings

File:Ernst Ferdinand Oehme - Landschaft mit schlafendem Mädchen.jpg, Landscape with Sleeping Girl (1853) File:Ernst Ferdinand Oehme - Mondnacht auf dem Golf von Salerno.jpg, Moonlight on the

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(1827) File:Ernst Ferdinand Oehme Dom im Winter.jpg, Cathedral in Winter (1821) File:Ernst Ferdinand Oehme - Prozession im Nebel.jpg, Procession in the Fog (1828) File:Ernst Ferdinand Oehme - Die Wassermühle.jpg, The Watermill (1844)

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Oehme.
* '' ABC Book for Children of All Ages'', drawn by Dresden artists with stories and songs by

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and Ferdinand Hiller, Leipzig : Wigand, 1845.
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by the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand 1797 births 1855 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters Landscape painters Artists from Dresden

Life

Selected paintings

References

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