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Düsseldorf Painting School
(1819-1918)
Central point of the cultural life in Düsseldorf
was the 1819 reopened Royal Art Academy.
It developed in the middle of the 19th century
under Wilhelm von Schadow for a period of
50 years to the most important painting school
in Europe. This image of the art academy led
well known artists from all over the world to
Düsseldorf in order to study, discuss and paint
together. This group of more than 4000 artists
was given the name “Düsseldorfer Painting
School”.
The technology
Very important for the foundation of an industrial
paint company was not only the local customer
base - that means a lot of artists living in the
area – but also the availability of a technology
to “store and transport colors without drying“.
For this reason the invention of the lead tube by
the American John Rand was key for paint production
in an industrial way. It also gave artists
the opportunity to go into the nature,
a circumstance, whose importance
for art Auguste Renoir later described
as: “The availability of color tubes allowed
us to paint outdoors. Without
this opportunity a Cezanne or Manet
wouldn’t have existed as important
artists and also not the impressionism.”
Die Marke Lukas / Inhaltsverzeichnis
Johann Peter Hasenclever, Studio Scene, 1836
150 years Schoenfeld
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC, 1851
Carl Friedrich Lessing, Harz landscape close to Regenstein, 1853
SCHOENFELD Catalogue No. 150 - 2012
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