Adam Elsheimer
(1578 - 1610) |
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landscapes, narratives, cabinet paintings Art Work
| Name: |
Adam Elsheimer |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Frankfurt, Germany |
| Nationality: |
German |
| Birth: |
1578 |
| Death: |
1610 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
landscapes, narratives, cabinet paintings |
| Medium: |
oil painting on copper |
| Method: |
oil painting on copper |
| Style: |
Baroque |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
| Adam Elsheimer was a German landscape painter who worked in Italy for the majority of his career. His work is notable for the innovative treatment of light and poetic realism in his landscape and narrative paintings. Elsheimer's contributions to these genres influenced such diverse artists as Lastman, Rembrandt, Rubens, who knew and admired Elsheimer in Rome during his visit there from 1600-1609, Saraceni, Claude Lorrain and the Dutch landscape artists working in Italy, Poelenburgh, Pynas, Breenbergh and Uyttenbroeck. Elsheimer's premature death at the young age of 32 coupled with his affinity for a poetically conceived nature made him an ideal candidate for romantic mythmaking. Known as the painter poet who suffered a tragic demise, he has, like other artists of the era, been the subject of revisionist thinking by recent scholars. Although his training is undocumented, he probably studied with Philip Uffenbach of Frankfurt, the leading artist at that time. Elsheimer likely worked with him from 1593 to 1598 whereupon he left, traveling to Venice via Munich. In Venice he worked with Hans Rottenhammer for a time and made an intensive study of Venetian painters, most particularly Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and the Bassani. Rottenhammer, whose preferred medium was oil on copper, no doubt inspired Elsheimer's use of that material. By April 1600, he had arrived in Rome where he remained until his death. |
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