Adolf Kaufmann (1848-1916) Norway around 1900.
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Product details
| Product number: | 1049 |
| Artist: | Adolf Kaufmann |
| Material: | Oil canvas |
Product description
Important seascape on the Norwegian coast. Dimensions (without frame) 57 x 75 cm. In the typical happy palette and manner of the Viennese artist Adolf Kaufmann. He was born on May 15, 1848 in Opava, Austrian Silesia (now Troppau, Czech Republic). After his early education in Opava, where he began drawing and painting without any formal training, he traveled to Paris, France, where he studied painting with Emile van Marcke de Lummen, a successful realist painter of rural life living in a green and idyllic nature thrives.
During this time Kaufmann traveled extensively through Central Europe, Russia, Poland, the Netherlands, Turkey and the Levant. He studied for a while in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich before settling in Vienna, Austria, where Kaufmann, along with fellow painter Carl Freiherr van Merode, a painter of portraits and interior genre scenes around 1900, opened a studio and school for young boys Teaching ladies the art of painting.
Soon after, Kaufmann returned to France, where he painted for a time in Normandy and parts of Brittany before settling in Paris to study the new Barbizon style of landscape painting. The small village of Barbizon in north-central France near the Forest of Fontainebleau became home to a number of artists, including Theodore Rousseau and Jean-Francois Millet, who developed a style that reflected the noble life of farmers and the beauty of unspoiled nature brought canvas.
After studying German Romantic painting in Düsseldorf and Munich, Kaufmann soon developed his unique mannerism of the Barbizon approach, with its use of high-contrast chiaroscuro and a rich palette. Early in his career in Paris, Kaufmann won a number of prizes and commissions from his participation in the Paris exhibitions, which helped to introduce and popularize the work of the new Barbizon style of landscape painting in France.
Kaufmann returned to Vienna, where he became a member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1908. During this time he exhibited his pictures in exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, the Munich Glass Palace and at the bi-annual competitions of the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions.
From 1909 to 1914, Kaufmann traveled and painted in Holland, South Tyrol, northern Italy and Norway, where he created a series of colorful, panoramic and atmospheric fjord and landscape paintings. After his return to Berlin, Kaufmann's paintings were acquired by a number of important collectors, including members of the Austrian royal family, the French Emperor Napoleon III, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and Queen Isabella II of Spain.
Today, Kaufmann's landscape and topographical works are included in national, international and private collections throughout the European Union, Great Britain, Russia and the United States. During his early career, Kaufmann signed many of his paintings with pseudonyms, including A. Guyot, A. Papouschek, G. Salvi, J. Rollin, L. Bayer and other names that stimulated scholarly and commercial interest in this successful and prolific artist .
Two years after his trip to Norway, Kaufmann died in 1916 at the age of 68 in his adopted home of Vienna, Austria.
During this time Kaufmann traveled extensively through Central Europe, Russia, Poland, the Netherlands, Turkey and the Levant. He studied for a while in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich before settling in Vienna, Austria, where Kaufmann, along with fellow painter Carl Freiherr van Merode, a painter of portraits and interior genre scenes around 1900, opened a studio and school for young boys Teaching ladies the art of painting.
Soon after, Kaufmann returned to France, where he painted for a time in Normandy and parts of Brittany before settling in Paris to study the new Barbizon style of landscape painting. The small village of Barbizon in north-central France near the Forest of Fontainebleau became home to a number of artists, including Theodore Rousseau and Jean-Francois Millet, who developed a style that reflected the noble life of farmers and the beauty of unspoiled nature brought canvas.
After studying German Romantic painting in Düsseldorf and Munich, Kaufmann soon developed his unique mannerism of the Barbizon approach, with its use of high-contrast chiaroscuro and a rich palette. Early in his career in Paris, Kaufmann won a number of prizes and commissions from his participation in the Paris exhibitions, which helped to introduce and popularize the work of the new Barbizon style of landscape painting in France.
Kaufmann returned to Vienna, where he became a member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1908. During this time he exhibited his pictures in exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, the Munich Glass Palace and at the bi-annual competitions of the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions.
From 1909 to 1914, Kaufmann traveled and painted in Holland, South Tyrol, northern Italy and Norway, where he created a series of colorful, panoramic and atmospheric fjord and landscape paintings. After his return to Berlin, Kaufmann's paintings were acquired by a number of important collectors, including members of the Austrian royal family, the French Emperor Napoleon III, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and Queen Isabella II of Spain.
Today, Kaufmann's landscape and topographical works are included in national, international and private collections throughout the European Union, Great Britain, Russia and the United States. During his early career, Kaufmann signed many of his paintings with pseudonyms, including A. Guyot, A. Papouschek, G. Salvi, J. Rollin, L. Bayer and other names that stimulated scholarly and commercial interest in this successful and prolific artist .
Two years after his trip to Norway, Kaufmann died in 1916 at the age of 68 in his adopted home of Vienna, Austria.