Sunday, March 17, 2024

WILHELM SCHUBERT VAN EHRENBERG

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Sunday feature on ART of ARCHITECTURE -by Gautam Shah

Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, was Antwerp based (1630 -1676) Flemish Painter. He specialized in architectural paintings, including of real and imaginary church interiors, Renaissance palaces and picture galleries.

Wilhelm mainly worked during 1960-1970. He collaborated with his contemporary artists to add human and animal figures. This was a common practice in 17th C Antwerp.

Wilhelm was a romantic person, who loved to play with light and shade. He had a natural sense of entwining architectural elements to form complex imaginary Capriccio art compositions. He liked Baroque architectural spaces, but in a form gar more conservative, than his other contemporary artists.

Wilhelm created several ‘Gallery paintings’, as was fashionable in the era, depicting showing paintings, artefact scientific instruments and natural specimens.



















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Sunday, March 3, 2024

FERDINANDO GALLI BIBIENA

 

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Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743) was an Italian Baroque-era Architect, Painter, Set designer and Scenographer. Eight members of the Bibiena family (1690 to 1787) were court designers across Europe. They produced intricate settings for operas, weddings, and funerals, devising ornate motifs that inspired many. Bibiena also worked in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, London, Naples, Stockholm and St. Petersburg.

Bibiena was an expert perspective artist. He avoided the one-point convergent or axially balanced vanishing point views. He instead created scapes with diagonal axis, and multi-vanishing point angular views. With these techniques, he replaced the older style of architectural Capriccio. He detailed the architecture forms to present splendour and spaciousness.
















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Sunday, February 25, 2024

HUGO DARNAUT

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Hugo Darnaut (1851- 1937), was an Austrian landscape painter, of the ‘Mood Impressionist’ movement. He began as an apprentice painter in a theatre in Vienna. He then studied formally art at the Vienna Academy.With scholarship, he focussed on the genre of landscape painting. Hugo Darnaut, from 1893-1912, rented with a friend Schindler, a castle in the Vienna Forest, to run a school for landscape painters.

Darnaut ’s landscape art includes water bodies, and atmospheric effects. He worked with water colour and oil paints. At places, he composed architectural elements in fairly complex arrangements. Well-rendered trees are inevitable part of his scenes.
























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