CHRISTOFFER WILHELM ECKERSBERG

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -Gautam Shah

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853) was Danish Artist. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark. He was called the father of Golden age of Danish art. He began with historical paintings, portraits and landscapes. On the way, he made drawings for copper plate etchings. He improved his skills in painting, the human form, and followed his teacher's admonition, ‘to paint after Nature and the Antique in order to find Truth’. He travelled to Germany to Paris, and than onto Rome. He liked the local bright Italian light, and, here produced a large number of Art works, These included some exceptional landscape studies.

He wrote a dissertation on the subject called Linear perspective used in the art of painting (Linearperspektiven, anvendt paa Malerkunsten) in 1841. 

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LOUISA INGRAM RAYNER

 

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Louisa Ingram Rayner (1832-1924) was a British Architectural landscape artist. Rayner studied painting from the age of fifteen, first with her father. She has rendered streets and picturesquely decaying buildings in many cities and towns of Britain and Northern France. Her scenes include old towns, cities, gateways, streets, markets, old relics and buildings. She has also drawn several interiors, and exteriors of churches.

Rayner was meticulous in drawing architectural elements, building details and surfaces. She was active through her long life of more than 90 years. She lived through, many changing phases the city-life, and recorded it all. She mainly worked with deep-toned water colours. 

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WILHELM SCHUBERT VAN EHRENBERG

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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 17^th 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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