#Georg Friedrich Kersting

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Embroiderer by Georg Friedrich Kersting, ca. 1817, oil on board

Warsaw National Museum

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Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785-1847) • Reading by Lamplight • 1814 • Kunst Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland

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Apollo with the Hours (Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1822)

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Georg Friedrich Kersting - Embroidery woman (1817)

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Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio

Artist: Georg Friedrich Kersting (German 1785-1847)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1811

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.

His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

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Embroidery Woman (1817) by Georg Friedrich Kersting

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On Outpost Duty by Georg Friedrich Kersting

Theodor Körner, Friedrich Friesen und Heinrich Hartmann auf Vorposten

Kersting painted this picture as a memorial to three friends who had fallen in the Napoleonic wars: Theodor Körner, Karl Friedrich Friesen, and Heinrich Hartmann. Kersting had also followed Körner’s lead and joined the Lützower Freikorps (volunteers) in 1813. As an unmounted marksman, “Jäger zu Fuß”, Kersting had been given weapons and money by Kügelgen and Caspar David Friedrich. Goethe had pronounced the blessing of the arms. The painting represents both Kersting’s patriotism and his grief. The three friends have taken up their position at the edge of an oak wood. They are wearing the Iron Cross medal, which was designed by Schinkel in 1813. Oak trees, their hair styles, and their red, black, and gold uniforms point towards a newly-awakened sense of being German. Silence reigns. Each member of the group seems lost in his own thoughts as though he were no longer of this world. Friesen leans against an oak tree with his rifle at the ready. As a drill instructor he fought alongside Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and became Lützow’s personal adjutant. On the left of the picture sits Hartmann, a nineteen-year-old law student from Heidelberg who had fought with Friesen and Kersting in the battle at Göhrde. Kersting was to see him die. The poet and dramatist Körner, sitting behind Hartmann, recruited volunteers for the Freikorps in Dresden. In his works, he advocated that the freedom of the fatherland should take precedence over the life of the individual.

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Jeune femme cousant à la lueur d'une lampe, Georg Friedrich Kersting (1783-1847).

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Georg Friedrich Kersting, Embroiderer

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Georg Friedrich Kersting | uomo che legge alla luce della lampada

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Vantagens

“Os homens têm todas as vantagens sobre nós, ao contarem as suas histórias. Eles têm usufruído de muito mais instrução; a pena tem estado nas suas mãos.”

Jane Austen, “Persuasão”; pintura de Georg Friedrich Kersting.

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Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785-1847) • Vor dem Spiegel (At the Mirror) • 1827 • Unspecified location

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Embroidery woman (1817) by Georg Friedrich Kersting

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Georg Friedrich Kersting - Man Reading at Lamplight, 1814

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Green 

[Green Trio, Salman Toor / The Flowered Dress, Edouard Vuillard / segment of Green Wheat Fields, Vincent Van Gogh / Bar Boy, Salman Toor / Ophelia, John Everett Millais / Found Drowned, George Frederic Watts / The Green Room, Paul Hoecker / A man on the train, Friday night, Holly Warburton / Nightlife Observation, Holly Warburton / Woman Embroidering, Georg Friedrich Kersting]