El duc Karl insultant el cadàver de Klaus Fleming
El duc Karl insultant el cadàver de Klaus Fleming c1878 pel pintor finlandès Albert Edelfelt (1854 – 1905); destacat pel seu enfocament natural i realista per pintar escenes i retrats històrics.
Això captivador obra d'art clàssica representa una escena dura amb el duc Carles IX de Suècia (1550 – 1611) que va regnar com a rei de Suècia des de 1604 a 1611; tot i que era el governant virtual de Suècia 1599 a 1604.
El duc està estirant la barba del mort Klaus Fleming (1535 – 1597); membre finlandès de la noblesa sueca, almirall i síndic del rei Joan III (1537 – 1592) i el rei Segismundo Vasa (1566 – 1632); mentre s'estira al seu taüt.
Al capdavant del taüt mentre té lloc aquest acte irrespectuós hi ha l'esposa i la filla de Klaus Fleming, with his wife giving the Duke a negative stare and his daughter is taken aback.
To the side of the wife and daughter appears to be the caretaker, and at the foot of the coffin is a young man holding the lid of the coffin, while soldiers in uniform and armament stand behind him.
Aquesta és una reproducció de mestres antics d'art digital remasteritzada d'una imatge de domini públic que està disponible com a impressió de llenç en línia..
Informació a continuació derivada de Wikipedia.org
Albert was born to the Swedish architect Carl Albert Edelfelt (1818 – 1869); who lived in Finland and Alexandra Brandt (1833–1901) on July 21, 1854 in Finland.
He began his artistic studies when he was 15 anys d'edat, at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society in Helsinki, Finland and continued as a student of Finnish Genre Painter Adolf von Becker (1831 – 1909) des de 1871 a 1873.
Afterwards he received an art scholarship from the Finnish Government to study history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Bèlgica; where he studied under Belgian Historical and Portrait Painter Nicaise de Keyser (1813 – 1887) des de 1873 a 1874, which led to him winning an award of excellence for the deathbed painting of Alexander the Great.
Després de 1874 a 1878 he studied in Paris, France under the French Painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904) at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
En 1878 his work Duke Charles IX of Sweden insulting the corpse of his enemy Klaus Fleming enjoyed great success in Finland though it did not get much attention in Paris; but a year later he had his first Paris Salon success, with his piece The Burnt Village; which portrayed a scene of the Finnish peasant revolt of 1596.
During the 1880s Albert began to include some of the characteristics of the Impressionist movement into his natural outdoor painting settings, but stayed well within the realist movement, concentrating on the precise details and complex color palate.
As an accomplished portrait painter Albert painted my famous individuals including that of the French chemist Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) and Finnish Soprano Opera Singer Aino Ackté (1876 – 1944), without posing his subjects; but capturing them in their natural everyday environment.