Eduard Agricola

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Eduard Agricola , drawing by Leopold Pollak , Rome 1835

Fritz Rudolf Eduard Agricola (* 1800 in Berlin , † 1877 in Karlsruhe ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Castel Gandolfo
Porto d'Ischia

Agricola, offspring of the extensive family of artists Agricola, studied painting at the Berlin Art Academy from 1818 to 1826 . He then lived in Munich and Salzburg until 1830 , where Friedrich zu Schwarzenberg promoted him. Then he went to Italy . Between 1830 and 1850 he lived mainly in Rome and Naples and toured the surrounding landscapes, which he painted in a romantic approach to art. In 1845 he was one of the founding members of the German Artists' Association in Rome . In the 1840s he received orders from Carl and Albrecht von Prussia . He returned to Germany around 1850, where he stayed in Berlin, Munich and Karlsruhe, among others. In 1873 he sent a ruin near Naples to the Vienna World Exhibition .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. General Realcyclopedia . Publisher by Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1865, Volume 1, p. 190 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 56