The storyteller at the fountain
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| The storyteller at the fountain |
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| Anselm Feuerbach , 1866 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 137 × 99 cm |
| Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern |
The storyteller at the fountain , also called Hafiz (or Hafes), is a painting by Anselm Feuerbach . It was created in 1866 and is now in the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern . An older and larger version of this painting can be found today in the Schack-Galerie , Munich. The painting was acquired by the collector Joseph Benzino in 1868 and later bequeathed to the Pfalzgalerie.
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Anselm Feuerbach has been interested in the Persian poet Hafis since his youth . In Germany, Hafis was best known for the West-Eastern Divan ( West-Eastern Divan , 1819) by Goethe as well as Rückert's re-poems and the translation by Joseph von Hammer . The sofa in printed edition contains 488 or 489 valid as an original ghazals , besides also some poems in other forms. Anselm Feuerbach had already depicted this Persian poet in an older painting. Hafis in front of the tavern is now in the Kunsthalle Mannheim . It shows an older man telling stories to his attentive audience with a lively gesture.
In The Storyteller at the Fountain , the poet Hafiz is portrayed much more cautiously. The poet shown here as a young man is wearing a caftan. Besides the Nubian servant in the background, this is the only reference to the oriental setting. The other women are dressed in clothes that Greek women could also wear. You listen attentively to the poet sitting in a relaxed position in the foreground.
The older version was commissioned by the Munich art collector Adolf Friedrich von Schack . In the younger version, the poet is shown a little younger and the composition of the picture is slightly different.
supporting documents
literature
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: German Masters of the Nineteenth Century: Paintings and Drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany , Harry N. Abrams, New York 1981, ISBN 0-87099-263-5
Single receipts
- ^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 94