Picture "Goethe" (1828), framed
Picture "Goethe" (1828), framed
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limited, 990 copies | reproduction, Dietz-Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 56 x 47 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Goethe" (1828), framed
To this day, it is perhaps Goethe's most famous portrait, and the "Olympian" would probably be quite content with it: On 4 June 1828 - Stieler had been in Weimar, Germany, for just over a week and had probably hardly progressed beyond the first sketches - Goethe wrote to Christian Friedrich Tieck: "The royal Bavarian court painter Mr Stieler [has ... ] progressed a long way, it is not for me to speak or judge, but I may say this much, that I consider it a great good fortune to see my memory preserved in this way."
The "court painter Mr Stieler" refers to Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858), an important representative of classicist painting and known for his works in the "Gallery of Beauties" of the Munich Residenz, which were commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria. This portrait was also commissioned by the Bavarian king. Goethe considered it an honour and an obligation to comply with Ludwig's request and modelled for Stieler, whom he soon also appreciated as a highly educated conversationalist, for almost a whole month.
Original: 1828, oil on canvas, 78 x 63.8 cm, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
Giclée edition of the renowned Dietz-Offizin with tactile and visible canvas structure, stretched directly on artist's canvas by means of a stretcher frame, like an original painting. Golden solid wood framing. Limited to 990 copies. Size 56 x 47 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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Art and culture set between Romanticism and Realism in the German-speaking world in the period from 1815 to approx. 1860. The epoch received its name through the magazine "Fliegende Blätter", where, between 1855 and 1857, the poems by Swabian schoolteacher Gottlieb Biedermaier were regularly published.
The painting of this period was dominated by intimate, comfortable motifs. Masters of the Biedermeier include Carl Spitzweg, J. P. Hasenclever, G. F. Kersting. Ludwig Richter distinguished himself as an excellent illustrator.
After the German Centennial Exhibition 1906 in Berlin, the term "Biedermeier" established to describe fashion and furniture of simple, unadorned styles, yet of high-quality craftsmanship.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade paper and watercolour paper as well as silk.