August Riedel
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich August von Riedel (born December 25, 1799 in Bayreuth , † August 6, 1883 in Rome ) was a German painter .
Life
The son of the builder Karl Christian Riedel and his wife Marianne Eleonora (née Tretzel). He trained from 1820 at the Munich Academy under the two Langers and already showed in his first works an unusually coloristic talent, which he increased enormously in Italy, where he lived from 1828, at a time when hardly any other German was left Artist placed value on the color effect in the sense of a color gradation. Over the years, however, Riedel has been overtaken by modern realism , but that does not detract from his original merit. Of his numerous paintings, always carefully crafted and characterized by the effects of sunlight, the best known are:
- Italian with tambourine
- Neapolitan fishing family on the seashore (Neue Pinakothek in Munich)
- Judith (same there)
- Girls from the environs of Naples (same place)
- Sakuntala
- Medea
- Albanian women (Berlin National Gallery)
- Bathing girls (same there); this was one of his main works, which he repeated several times
- Young Italian woman with two sleeping children on the coast (private property)
- Bacchante (private property)
Until his death he was a professor at the Academy of San Luca in Rome.
Works (selection)
Portrait Therese von Schenk , 1831
Judith , 1840
Felice Berardi from Albano , 1842
Girls bathing , around 1845
Honors
- 1851 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , with the personal nobility ( ennoblement ) was associated.
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler: Riedel, August . In: New general artist lexicon ... Volume 13 : Rhenghiero, Rhenghieri – Rubens, PP . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1843, p. 151–154 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hyacinth Holland : Riedel, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 517-519.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christa Schaper: August Riedel. A Bayreuth painter professor at the Roman Academy of San Luca.
- ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual. 1858, p. 47.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riedel, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riedel, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich August von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1883 |
| Place of death | Rome |