Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt c1843 by German Painter Joseph Karl Stieler (1781 – 1858); was a Neoclassical Portrait painter who worked as a royal court painter to the Bavarian Kings and who is known for the Gallery of Beauties at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich as well as his portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, which he did 1820.
This is a magnificent portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859) a Prussian polymath (a person who’s knowledge spans a significant number of subjects), geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
His quantitative work on Botanical Geography laid the foundation for the field of Biogeography; and his approach and advocacy for long term Systematic Geophysical measurement became the foundation on which modern Geomagnetic and Meterological monitoring is based.
Mae hwn yn atgynhyrchiad hen feistri celf ddigidol wedi'i atgynhyrchu o ddelwedd parth cyhoeddus.
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Joseph was born in the city of Mainz, Germany to a long-established family of engravers, punchcutters and die makers; receiving some artistic training from his father, August Friedrich Stieler (1736 – 1789).
After the untimely death of his father, Joseph Karl autodidactically completed his apprenticeship and began his career as a painter of miniatures, which were increasingly sought after by the bourgeois circles.
After Mainz had been occupied by French revolutionary troops in 1792, Stieler followed the expelled court of Prince-Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal to Aschaffenburg.
Here he met with the later Archbishop Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, a ddaeth yn noddwr a noddwr pwysicaf iddo.
O 1802 i 1805 mynychodd Academi Celfyddydau Cain Fienna yn nosbarth meistr Heinrich Füger. Ffurfiwyd arddull portreadau Stieler yn fwyaf arbennig yn ystod ei waith yn yr atelier Parisianaidd o François Gérard, myfyriwr i Jacques-Louis David.