Ferdinand Flor

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On the way to the city festival

Ferdinand Flor (also Ferdinand Flohr , born January 22, 1793 in Hamburg , † April 5, 1881 in Rome ) was a German history and genre painter.

Ferdinand Flor took part in the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon in 1813. He then became a student of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein in Eutin . From 1815 to 1819 he studied at the Academy of Arts in Dresden and joined the local artists' association. After participating in the Wartburg Festival , he continued his studies in Munich from 1817, where he attracted attention more for his setting of living pictures, mask dances and theater than for his artistic achievements.

Flor came to Italy in September 1819 and worked in Rome from 1820 to 1828 . During this time he visited Florence , Paris and England , where he exhibited his works in 1831.

Around Christmas 1834 he finally moved to Rome and stayed there for life with interruptions. He visited Sicily in 1836 , Naples in 1837 and Florence in 1838 . He spent the period from 1844 to 1853 in Germany and returned to Rome in December 1853. In 1875 he was elected a member of the German Artists' Association. Flor was friends with Bertel Thorvaldsen in Rome and in 1838 portrayed Thorvaldsen's daughter, Elisa Paulsen (1813-1870).

In Rome he took part in the life of the German artist colony, organized funny " Tableaux vivants ". Flor was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association .

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Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Flor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst von Bandel, memories from my life, Detmold 1937, pp. 75f.
personal data
SURNAME Flor, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flohr, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1881
Place of death Rome