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Jan192015

Friedrich Wasmann

DateMonday, January 19, 2015 at 9:00AM

Friedrich Wasmann - Paul, Maria, and Filomena von Putzer - 1870 - Oil on canvas, 38 x 49 cm - Nationalgalerie, Berlin (click photo for larger image)German painter Friedrich Wasmann (1805-1886) was trained in Dresden and was a very prolific artist. The Hamburger Kunsthalle alone owns more than 1,000 of his works, which include portraits, genre scenes, and plein air landscape studies in oil and pencil. His popular autobiography (Walt Wasmann: A German artist's life, depicted by himself. Leipzig 1915) is one of the most interesting depictions of artistic life in the 19th century. Click here to connect to Amazon if you’re interested—but only if you read German!

“This group portrait is strikingly reminiscent of far earlier American portraits in which the clothes, poses, and settings were all prepainted by itinerant artists, made ready for the purchaser's selection, with only the heads needing filling in." 

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