Picture "Schiller Portrait" (1808-1809), framed
Picture "Schiller Portrait" (1808-1809), framed
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limited, 990 copies | numbered | reproduction, Dietz Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 55 x 49 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Schiller Portrait" (1808-1809), framed
This portrait is one of the most famous of Schiller's works and can be found in a famous spot in the Goethe Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, where it continues to shape our perception of the great poet of Wallenstein to this day. However, it was painted years after Schiller's death. Kügelgen (1772-1820), a friend of Caspar David Friedrich and one of the most important portrait painters of his time, paid his respects to the two great poets of the period in 1808-1809, portraying not only Goethe but also Schiller, who had already died in 1805.
Dietz Gicleé on high-quality artist's canvas, limited edition of 990 copies. Stretched on a wooden stretcher frame. Numbered on the back. In high-quality solid wood frame. Size 55 x 49 cm (h/w).
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, spurt".
The giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are fade-proof, i.e. resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.
The giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade and watercolour paper as well as for silk.
An attitude that spread from literature and philosophy into the visual arts, established in about 1800 but failed to produce its own style in visual arts.
The art of Romanticism was determined by the content of the awareness of life and the sensations triggered by it. Inwardness and feelings, dream and fantasy, world and nature, the power of mythical and the striving towards infinity became central themes. The actual realm of Romanticism lies in painting and drawing. Landscape, in particular, came to the fore as a recurring theme: man and nature were set in relation to each other and moods were reflected. Alongside the new feeling for nature, there was a renewal of religious attitudes and a return to the past, tradition, history, old legends, fairy tales, as well as to the art of old masters and epochs. Especially in the case of Germany, this was strongly national-oriented art.
Main representatives in Germany include C.D. Friedrich, P.O. Runge, J.A. Koch, M. v. Schwind, and also the Nazarene group of artists. French Romanticism, which was characterised by other trends than the German, is represented mainly by the art of Delacroix.
Romanticism lasted until around 1830.