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Lake in the Riesengebirge
Ludwig Richter1839
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
In 1836 pictures from the modern Düsseldorf school of painting were exhibited for the first time in Dresden. Ludwig Richter was impressed above all by realistic nature studies by August Schirmer. They had “opened my eyes to a way of observing and understanding nature, for which I am intensely grateful.” An echo of this reaction still lingers in this dramatic landscape rendered in, for Richter, an unusually painterly style.
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- Title: Lake in the Riesengebirge
- Creator: Ludwig Richter
- Date Created: 1839
- Physical Dimensions: w88.0 x h63.0 cm
- Type: Painting
- Technique and material: Oil on canvas
- Inv.-No.: A I 269
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-815114
- External link: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Copyrights: Text: © Prestel Verlag / Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: © b p k - Photo Agency / Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jörg P. Anders
- Collection: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Artist biography: Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter was a German portrait painter. He received his formal training at the academy in Berlin under Eduard Holbein, was taught by Léon Cogniet in Paris and studied in Rome until 1849. In 1861 he travelled to Egypt, realizing a commission of King Maximilian II of Bavaria to depict the construction of pyramids. For King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia he created "Raising of Jairus’ Daugther" (1856) which became one of his most famous compositions. He is also known for his portraits, especially of women, including Queen Louise (1879), Empress Augusta (1878) and Princess Carolath (1872).
- Artist Place of Death: Berlin, Germany
- Artist Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
- Artist Dates: 1823-08-03/1884-04-03
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