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Monday
Dec162013

Austrian Painter Joseph Rebell

DateMonday, December 16, 2013 at 12:13PM

Joseph Rebell - The Mole at Portici - 1818 - Oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm - Neue Pinakothek, Munich (click photo for larger image)Joseph Rebell (1787-1828) studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. His early work is heavily influenced by classicism and by heroic depictions of landscape in the manner of Claude Lorrain. Of decisive importance was Rebell’s long stay in Italy: in Milan (1810-11), Naples (1813-15) and Rome (1816-24). This small painting depicts the harbor of a tiny fishing village near Naples. Rebell's landscape works show the strong influence of English and French landscape painters - artists who Rebell met while in Italy - and their penchant for realism. Although his landscapes have a rather understated emotionality, they nevertheless demonstrate a certain atmospheric quality that places Rebell in the company of the early landscape realists. In Rebell's work, idealistic composition and heroic human or animal groupings are replaced by scenes filled with serenity and sensitive light plays.

 

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