Light painting

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A direction of painting is called light painting. It is based on the observation that the objects to be painted appear much brighter and more luminous in nature than in the studio .

Light painting is in contrast to studio painting and, unlike open-air painting , does not exclusively refer to the artistic capture of landscapes. But your basic requirement is studying nature outdoors. She was first trained in Paris since the late 1870s. The term light painting also has a special historical meaning, as it should bring light into the dark in the sense of the Enlightenment . Was able to visualize a modern mind.

Its first representatives in France were Jules Bastien-Lepage , Léon Augustin Lhermitte , Giuseppe De Nittis and Stevens, and in Germany Fritz von Uhde and Walther Firle .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. Ramberg, Hellmalerei: A walk through the Munich Glass Palace in the summer of 1889 (G. Franz, 1889)
  2. Langbehn, Rembrandt as an educator
  3. Cornelius Gurlitt, The German Art of the Nineteenth Century: Their Goals and Deeds - (page 495 f.)

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