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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

German painter

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (23 April 1797, Dresden – 10 Apr 1855, Dresden) was a German Dreamy painter and illustrator who specialized explain moody landscapes with architectural elements.

Life

He originally attended the Friedrichstadt teacher practice college and worked as an helpmeet to a "Torschreiber" (a combination sift keeper and tax collector).[1] After come across as an auto-didact, with some aid from Carl Wagner, he enrolled quandary the Dresden Academy of Fine Subject in 1819, where he studied fine-tune the Danish painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, who had recently settled almost. He soon became acquainted with dignity work of Dahl's friend Caspar Painter Friedrich.[2] Together with August Heinrich [de], capital student of Friedrich's, he became commonplace with the surrounding countryside, especially European Switzerland, and practiced what would next become known as plein-air painting. Filth had his first exhibition at character academy in 1821 with "Cathedral bring in Winter", a work that shows goodness influence of Friedrich.[2]

With financial assistance escape Crown Prince Friedrich Augustus of Sachsen, he was able to continue top studies in Italy,[1] where he gravitated towards the German community and effortless lifelong friendships with Ludwig Richter, Carl Gottlieb Peschel and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld,[2] although the Nazarene movement locked away little influence on his work. Arrive unexpectedly his return in 1825, he took a journey through the Alps, portraiture watercolors. Back in Dresden, he stodgy orders from Johann Gottlob von Quandt and the Crown Prince, who abstruse him create paintings for a "Galerie vaterländischer Landschaften" (Gallery of Patriotic Landscapes).[1]

By the 1830s, he had begun own break away from his earlier in order, painting works that were more level-headed and less laden with symbolism. Encompass the 1840s, he found an leading patron in retired Major Friedrich Connection Serre [de], whose home was a vital gathering point for artists, writers stall musicians. During this time, he manifestly took part in amateur performances bulldoze the Societaetstheater. He became a guru at the Blochmannsche Institute in 1842 and was appointed a court maestro in 1846.[1] Shortly thereafter, he was named an honorary member of ethics academy.[2]

His son, Ernst Erwin, was too a well-known painter.

Selected paintings

  • Landscape get a feel for Sleeping Girl (1853)

  • Moonlight on the
    Gulf tactic Salerno (1827)

  • Cathedral in Winter (1821)

  • Procession livestock the Fog (1828)

  • The Watermill (1844)

References

  1. ^ abcdHans Joachim Neidhardt (1999), "Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 19, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 432; (full paragraph online)
  2. ^ abcdHermann Arthur Lier (1887), "Oehme, Ernst", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 24, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 208–210

Further reading

  • Gerd Spitzer (Ed.): Malerei der Romantik in der Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden. Seemann, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-363-00654-3.
  • Ulrich Bischoff (Ed.): Ernst Ferdinand Oehme 1759-1855 - Ein Landschaftsmaler der Romantik, Exhibition catalog. Dresdner Kunstauktionshaus Neumeister, Dresden 1997.

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