Friedrich Wasmann Selbstportrait 1846 München

Rudolph Friedrich Wasmann (8 August 1805,

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– 10 May 1886,

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) was a German-born painter in the Biedermeier style. He spent most of his life in a part of the

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that is now in Italy.

Life

At the age of seventeen, he began an apprenticeship with the painter Christoffer Suhr. Then, after several years of study at the

Dresden Academy of Fine Arts The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the produc ...

and the

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...

, he spent two years in Merano. From 1832 to 1835 he lived in Rome, where he came under the influence of Friedrich Overbeck,

Joseph Anton Koch Joseph Anton Koch (27 July 1768 – 12 January 1839) was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter. Biography The Tyrolese painter was born i ...

, and other members of the

Nazarene movement The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of c ...

. He eventually converted to Catholicism. After six more years spent in Merano and

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, where he worked as a portrait painter, he returned to Hamburg, where he was introduced to his future wife, Emilie Krämer. They married in 1846 and went to live with her step-mother back in Merano. In addition to portraits, he produced landscapes and religiously-themed works in Nazarene style as well as a popular autobiography. Many of his works are on display at the

Kunsthalle Hamburg The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. The museum consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaa ...

. A street in the Barmbek-Nord district is named after him. His son was the Jesuit priest and entomologist,

Erich Wasmann Erich Wasmann (29 May 1859 in Merano − 27 February 1931 in Valkenburg, Netherlands) was an Austrian (born in South Tyrol) entomologist, specializing in ants and termites, and Jesuit priest. He described the phenomenon known as Wasmannian m ...

References

Autobiography

* ''Ein deutsches Künstlerleben, von ihm selbst geschildert''. Edited by Bernt Grønvold, Verlagsanstalt F. Bruckmann Aktien-Gesellschaft (1896), "Popular edition" by Insel-Verlag (1915)

External links

ArtNet: More works by Wasmann

Tirolerland TV: Der Maler Friedrich Wasmann
(video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Wasmann, Friedrich 1805 births 1886 deaths German male painters Portrait painters Nazarene movement 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists

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