Ritratto di Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayr
Ritratto di Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayr (1813 – 1898) c1831 by German Painter Joseph Karl Stieler (1781 – 1858); era un ritrattista neoclassico che lavorò come pittore di corte reale per i re bavaresi e che è noto per la Galleria delle bellezze al castello di Nymphenburg a Monaco e per il suo ritratto di Ludwig van Beethoven, che ha fatto 1820.
Helene, the daughter of a shoemaker was consider to be the epitome of Munich Germany’s 19th century beauties.
Ludwig I King of Bavaria first took note of her when she was 15 anni di età, as she supplied toys to his children; and he commissioned a portrait of her from Joseph Karl Stieler for his Gallery of Beauties.
The Gallery of Beauties is a collection of 36 portraits of the most beautiful women of the nobility and middle classes of Munich Germany, painted mostly by Joseph Karl Stieler between 1827 attraverso 1850; who was appointed court painter in 1820.
Questa è una riproduzione ritoccata di arte digitale dei vecchi maestri di un'immagine di pubblico dominio.
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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, who became his most important patron and sponsor.
A partire dal 1802 per 1805 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class of Heinrich Füger. Stieler’s portrait style was most especially shaped during his work in the Parisian atelier of François Gérard, a student of Jacques-Louis David.