Anselm Feuerbach, 1829 Speyer – 1880 Venedig,... Lot n° 1008
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YOUNG WOMAN WITH THE APRICOT BOW
Oil on canvas. Doubled.
55.5 x 42.5 cm.
In profile frame with ornamental relief.
Anselm Feuerbach traveled to Italy with the poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel in 1855 and lived permanently in Rome from 1856 and 1857, from where he undertook excursions to Frascati, Tivoli and the Alban Hills. He had his own studio in Palazzo Costa in Rome. In 1857 Feuerbach became a member of the German Artists' Association in Rome. In 1860, he met Anna (Nanna), the wife of a Roman carpenter, who became his model and with whom he began a relationship. In the years that followed, he produced a series of his classic Nanna portraits, which defined the ideal of classic Italian female beauty in Germany until well into the 1920s and were widely distributed as room decorations using modern art printing techniques. Here, however, a Central European beauty in a white lace dress with an apricot-colored bow and a silhouette that looms sharply to the left, which may have been taken by a traveler to Italy.
Literature:
Cf. Julius Allgeyer, Anselm Feuerbach, Berlin 1904.
Cf. Jürgen Ecker, Anselm Feuerbach. Life and Work. Critical catalog of paintings, oil sketches and oil studies, Munich 1991.
Cf. Ekkehard Mai, Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880). Ein Jahrhundertleben, Cologne/ Weimar/ Vienna 2017 (1401474) (13)
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