Adrian Ludwig Richter a German

Germany

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 painter

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 and etcher, was born at Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, the son of the engraver Karl August Richter, from whom he received his training; but he was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki

Daniel Chodowiecki

Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki was a Polish - German painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher...

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He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work is as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of Grimm

Grimm

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. Richter visited Italy

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 from 1823–1826, and his Thunderstorm in the Sabine Mountains at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt is one of the rare Italian subjects from his brush. In 1828 he worked as designer for the Meissen

Meissen

Meissen is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche...

 factory, and in 1841 he became professor and head of the landscape atelier at the Dresden Academy, (now Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden

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). The Dresden Gallery owns one of his best and most characteristic paintings: Bridal Procession in a Spring Landscape. An eye disease put a stop to the practice of his art in 1874; he was pensioned in 1877, and died at Loschwitz

Loschwitz

Loschwitz is a borough of Dresden, Germany, incorporated in 1921. It consists of ten quarters :Loschwitz is a villa quarter located at the slopes north of the Elbe river...

, near Dresden.

Life

The interest of his uneventful life centres within the circle of his art. As a painter Richter aimed at a thorough blending of the figure element with the landscape and may be judged by the following examples: "Harvest Procession in the Campagna" (1833) and three others in the Leipzig Museum: "Ferry at the Schreckenstein" (1836) and "Bridal Procession in Springtime" (1847), in the Dresden Gallery; "View of the Riesengebirge" (1839), in the National Gallery, Berlin. One of his most notable proteges was Hermann Lungkwitz

Hermann Lungkwitz

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Among his 240 etching

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s are about 140 views in Saxony, others of Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

, Rome

Rome

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, and the Campagna. His individuality is most completely revealed in his 3000 or more drawings for woodcut

Woodcut

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s, of which art he was one of the most influential revivers. Of special charm are his illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield (1841), for Musäus

Johann Karl August Musaus

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' Volksmärchen (1842) and for numerous other fairy tales, for the Goethe Album (1855), and for Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

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's Glocke (1857), and those cyclical publications which reveal the most brilliant side of the artist's inexhaustible fancy, such as Beschauliches und Erbauliches (1851); Kinderleben (1852); Fürs Haus (1858–1861); Der gute Hirt (1860); Unser täglich Brot (1866); Bilder und Vignetten (1874).

Publications

• His autobiograohy, Lebenserinnerungen eines deutschen Malers, edited by his son Heinrich, (Twelfth edition, Frankfurt, 1905)
• J. F. Hoff, (Dresden, 1877)
• Johannes Erler, (Leipzig, 1897)
• V. Mohn, (Bielefeld, 1898)
• Atkinson, in Art Journal (London, 1885)
• Lützow
  Karl von Lützow
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  , Die vervielfältigende Kunst der Gegenwart (Vienna, 1886)
• Alte und neue Studenten-Lieder (Old and new Student Songs), and Alte und neue Volks-Lieder (Old and new Folk Songs), (Leipzig 1844-47) (together with Adolf Eduard Marschner
  Adolf Eduard Marschner
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  ).