Nestor Schaffers

Nestor Schaffers (* 1826 in Liège ; † 1896 in Ghent ) was a Belgian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and a photographer .

Life

Frédéric Hennebert , portrait photo 1873

Schaffers initially studied in Antwerp and from 1846 to 1848 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class . From 1848 to 1862 he lived in Barbizon , where he became familiar with the painting of the Barbizon School . He also traveled to Switzerland . From 1862 until his death he lived in Ghent. In this city he ran a photography studio . Schaffers was a founding member of the Association Belge de Photographie .

Web links

Commons : Nestor Schaffers - collection of images, videos and audio files

Nestor Schaffers , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Nestor Schaffers , data sheet in the portal musee-orsay.fr ( Musée d'Orsay )
Nestor Schaffers , data sheet in the portal fotoevers.eu (lexicon of photographers)

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439

↑ No. 12334–12336 in: Findbuch 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rhineland department

↑ See obituary in: Association Belge de Photographie, Bulletin . Troisième Série, Vol. III, 23me Année, Brussels 1896, p. 870, digitized

personal data
SURNAME	Schaffers, Nestor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and a photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liege
DATE OF DEATH	1896
Place of death	Ghent

[1] Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439

[3] No. 12334–12336 in: Findbuch 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rhineland department

[4] See obituary in: Association Belge de Photographie, Bulletin . Troisième Série, Vol. III, 23me Année, Brussels 1896, p. 870, digitized