Andrea Appiani
Andrea Appiani (* 23. May 1754 in Milan , † 8. November 1817 ) was an Italian painter of Classicism , which by his contemporaries the "painter of Grace" ( Pittore delle Grazie was called) because he "[...] the Jacques-Louis David's heroic style added a lovely elegance. "
Life
Andrea Appiani was an autodidact who developed his own style mainly through precise studies of the flowering period of Italian wall painting, especially the Raphael paintings . In Milan his works can be found in almost all palaces and churches. To glorify Napoleon's military successes in Northern Italy, he designed the motif pages of the commemorative medals between 1796 and 1797. a. to the battles of Montenotte , Millesimo and Mantua . In 1803 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts . Napoleon I appointed him court painter ( Premier Peintre du Roi ) in 1805 and granted him a fixed annual salary. After his fall in 1815, Appiani was almost destitute and lived from the sale of his works, he suffered two strokes.
The frescoes from the myth of Cupid and Psyche in the royal villa at Monza , the dome paintings in the church of Santa Maria di San Celso in Milan and Apollo with the muses in the Villa Bonaparte are considered outstanding works .
Works (excerpt)
- Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as King of Italy , 1805, oil on canvas, approx. 90 × 70 cm, signed and dated on the pedestal left and right: “A. APPIANI FEC MDCCCV “, Army History Museum , Vienna.
- Allegory of the Peace of Pressburg , 1808, oil on canvas, 38 × 46 cm, Pushkin Museum , Moscow
- Portrait of Eugène de Beauharnais , around 1800, pencil / watercolor, 15 × 12 cm, Museo Correr , Venice
- Portrait of Madame Hamelin , 1798, oil on canvas, 70 × 55 cm, Musée Carnavalet , Paris
gallery
Portrait of Napoleon
Portrait of Eugène de Beauharnais
Portrait of Louis-Charles-Antoine Desaix
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . 1835, pp. 147-149, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Appiani, Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 55 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Appiani Andreas. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 27.
- Fernando Caruso: Andrea Appiani: (1754-1817) . Paris 1990.
- Erwin Redlinger: Andrea Appiani: a painter of the Italian Empire . Dissertation at the University of Würzburg, 1922.
- Alessandra Zanchi: Andrea Appiani . CLUEB, Bologna 1995. (arte contemporanea; 8) ISBN 88-8091-162-7 .
- Lisa Zeitz and Joachim Zeitz: Napoleon's medals , Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-25-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Wurzbach, born and died in Bosisio
- ^ Lisa Zeitz, Joachim Zeitz: Napoleon's medals . Artist biography Appiani, Andrea (1754–1817), p. 258
- ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 69.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appiani, Andrea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Appiani, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian neoclassic painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1817 |
| Place of death | Milan |