Christoph Ludwig Agricola
Christoph Ludwig Agricola (born November 5, 1665 in Regensburg ; † August 8, 1724 there ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
Agricola spent a large part of his life traveling; he visited England , the Netherlands and France and was also in Naples for a long time .
His numerous landscape paintings depict nature with remarkable accuracy, and he mastered the depiction of the different seasons excellently. His motif design shows the influences of Nicolas Poussin , the precision of light and color choice can also be found in a similar form with Claude Lorrain . Most of his works were created in the so-called cabinet format, a small image format that was used in cabinets at the time .
His pictures are mainly kept in German, formerly princely picture galleries , including Braunschweig , Dessau , Dresden , Kassel , Schwerin , but can also be found in Breslau , Prague , Copenhagen , Venice , Florence and Naples.
His portrait, created in 1709 by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera , is lost today; it was reproduced in 1711 by the Augsburg copperplate engraver Bernhard Vogel (1683–1737) in a mezzotint sheet.
Works (selection)
- Self-portrait with brush and palette (in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig )
- Portrait of his brother (scraped by Bernhard Vogel)
- Diana and Actaeon (etching)
- Satyr with nymph on the couch (etching)
- Landscape with a river and huts (etching)
literature
- Rüdiger Klessmann : The landscape painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola: on the characteristics and chronology of his works. In: Low German contributions to art history. Volume 43/44, 2006, pp. 207-224.
- Rüdiger Klessmann: Christoph Ludwig Agricola. A forgotten baroque landscape painter. In: Maria Dłudek (Ed.): Arx Felicitatis (Festschrift Andrzej Rottermund). Warsaw 2001, pp. 207–215.
- Hana Seifertová: Artis Pictoriae Amatores. Exhibition catalog, Prague 1993, ISBN 80-7035-052-0 , p. 197 f.
- R. Eisen: The German landscape painting of the late baroque. Diss. Würzburg, Leipzig 1936, p. 42 f.
- Wilhelm Schmidt : Agricola, Christoph Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 143.
- Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf: Agricola, Christoph Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 98 ( digitized version ).
- Agricola, Christoph Ludwig . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 1 : A-Androphagi . London 1910, p. 386 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ death certificate. Regensburg City Archives.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Agricola, Christoph Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1665 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1724 |
Place of death | regensburg |