Biografi caspar david friedrich
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Anthony Kersting
British architectural photographer
Anthony Frank Kersting, FRGS (7 November 1916 – 2 September 2008)[1][2] was a British architectural photographer. His images of British, European, and Middle Eastern architecture also feature urban and village life, landscape, commerce, transport and leisure.[3] He was considered to be the leading architectural photographer of his generation.[1]
Publications. Add “Crusader Castles - Burgen der Kreuzritter” 1966; text by Mueller-Wiener, publisher Deutscher Kunstverlag.
Biography
Kersting was born in 37 Frewin Road in Wandsworth, South London, and studied at Dulwich College, where he developed an interest in photography.[1]
After leaving Dulwich he worked at the Sloane Square branch of Lloyds Bank.[2] In 1936 the publication in newspapers of his photographs depicting the new Peter Jones department store influenced a change in career. In 1939 he volunteered for the Royal Air Force and, in 1941, was posted to Egypt. After the war Kersting continued to work
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Biography
German painter. He trained at the academy of art in Copenhagen from 1805 to 1808, adopting the clarity and brilliance characteristic of the Danish school. He settled in 1808 at Dresden, where he specialized in small portraits set in delicately rendered interiors. He was a friend of Friedrich and painted several versions of a portrait showing him in his studio.
With Friedrich, Kersting went on a walking tour through the Zittau Mountains and the Riesengebirge in July 1810. Kersting was also a close friend of the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen, at whose house he was a frequent guest. His first two portraits in individual interiors (a genre he was to make his own), Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio (Hamburg, Kunsthalle) and Gerhard von Kügelgen in his Studio (Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle), attracted much attention on their exhibition at the Dresden Kunstakademie in 1811.
Kersting continued to produce works of this very appealing type, linking the sitter with his surroundings: they are an epitome of early Romantic interest in the spirit of the individual and poin
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Kersting studied in a progressive art Academy in Copenhagen from 1805 to 1808, taking clarity and luster feature of the Danish school. During his studies he was awarded a silver medal in the drawing.
Specialization of the artist were of small size portraits and genre scenes in the background are carefully decorated interiors. Kersting continues to produce work of this very attractive type, associating the customer with its environment: they are the embodiment of the early romantic interest in the character of interaction between the person and the place where he works or lives. In 1818, he became chief artist at the factory for the production of porcelain in Meissen and remains in this position until the end of life.
German painter. He studied at the Academy of art in Copenhagen from 1805 to 1808, taking clarity and luster feature of the Danish school. In 1808 he went to Dresden, where he met Caspar David Friedrich and his circle. Friedrich Kersting made a trip to the Alps in July 1810. Kersting was also a close friend of the painter Gerhard von Kugelgen, in whose house he was
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