ERNST FERDINAND OEHME

Post 180 -by Gautam Shah 

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture

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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797-1855) was a Dresden born German Painter. He joined Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1819. He became familiar with the countryside of Saxon Switzerland, and practiced landscape painting, which later became known as plein-air painting.

In 1821, at the age of 24, he first submitted ‘Cathedral in winter’ for an exhibition. His early works reflect sombre tones and 'Gothic' like settings. He travelled in Italy, and upon his return in 1825, he visited the Alps, painted it in water colours.

Oehme was a romantic painter who specialized in moody landscapes with architectural elements. His early works were realistic, full of emotional content and not charged with symbolism. But by 1830s, he had begun to draw naturalistic subjects.

Oehme favoured pure colours, as to be the reflection of, a ‘limitless, divine illumination of the universe’. 

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