franz xaver winterhalter(1805-1873)
Franz Xavier Winterhalt
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873), a master of classicist painting of the German Academy of Art in the mid-19th century, specialized in portraiture and was also a printmaker.
portrait of leonilla, princess of sayn wittgenstein (1843)
Born on 20 April 1805 in Menzenschwand (part of st. blasien) in the Black Forest region of Germany, Franz Winterhalter was a farmer and resin producer Fidel winterhalter (1773-1863) and his wife Eva Meyer (1765-1838) The sixth child. His father had a great influence on his life. Of the eight brothers and sisters in the family, only four survived. In his life, Franz Winterhardt was greatly influenced by his brother Hermann (1808-1891), who was also a painter.
count jenison walworth (1837)
Franz Winterhalt left menzenschwand after studying at the school of Benedictine monastery in St. Blasien, and in 1818 Winterhalt began studying painting and printmaking at the age of thirteen. He later studied painting at the Academy of Monaco.
empress elisabeth of austria in dancing dress (1865)
In 1823, at the age of eighteen, Winterhalt went to Munich to seek development. In 1828 he became a master painter of the Duchess sophie margravine of baden (princess sophie wilhelmine of sweden) in karlsruh (a city in southwestern Germany, on the Rhine, west-west of Stuttgart).
helene-louise de mecklembourg-schwerin, duchess of orleans with his son count of paris
His chances of success outside Germany began in 1832, and in 1833-1834 he traveled to Italy, supported by Grand Duke Leopold of baden, and when he returned from Karlsruhe, his portraits of the Grand Duke Leopold ofbaden and his wife made him soon a full-time painter of the Grand Duchy.
karl josef berkmuller (1830)
Winterhardt later became a full-time court painter in many european powers, serving king Louis Philippe-philippe of France, as well as the royal courts of Queen Victoria of England, Austria-Hungary and Belgium, famous for portraits of kings and queens.
l dolce farniente (1836)
After 1835, Winterhalt became a popular portrait painter at the courts of various countries, with a wide popularity, and he also engaged in lithography and popularized his works through this technology. His marriage proposal was rejected in 1852, after which Franz Xavier Winterhalter was loyal to his painting work and remained single for the rest of his life.
Leopold i (1840)
Winterhalter franz xaver winterhalter later settled in Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe. In the last two years of his life his paintings became rare.
louis philippe i, king of the french (1840)
In the summer of 1873, during a visit to Frankfurt, Winterhalt unfortunately contracted typhus and died on 8 July 1873 at the age of sixty-eight.
louis-charles-philippe of orleans duke of nemours (1843)
Winterhalter was keenly aware of the political and moral tendencies of the different courts and was able to adjust his painting style in a timely manner.
ludwig, graf von langenstein (1834)
Winterhalter's works show a rigorous and sophisticated German style, the painting expression is close to the aesthetic standards of modern people, and the aristocratic posture in the painting is elegant, the clothing is extremely gorgeous, and it is outstanding in portraiture. Through his paintings, one can further understand the portraits and luxurious lives of european royalty and aristocrats in the 19th century.
margravine sophie von baden (1830)
A difficult question is that it is difficult to classify Franz Xavier Winterhalter as a painter of what school of painting. His early style of painting was neoclassical, but his style can be described as neo-Rococo. After his death, his paintings were considered Romantic. There is also little information about his personal and painting situation, resulting in his paintings not being seriously studied for a long time.
portrait of count alexei bobrinsky (1844)
However, in 1987, at the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Petit Palais Museum in Paris, the paintings of Franz Xavier Winterhalter were made on a major display. This brought his excellent paintings back into the spotlight, and Winterhardt returned to the position of an outstanding master painter recognized by the people. Today, his paintings are exhibited in major museums in Europe and the United States.
portrait of francisca caroline de braganca (1844)
portrait of leopold i of belgium (1846)
portrait of louises von orléans (1841)
portrait of madame ackerman, the wife of the chief finance minister of king louis philippe
portrait of madame rimsky-korsakov, varvara dmitrievna mergassov (1864)
portrait of prince albert (1843)
portrait of prince henri, duke of aumale (1843)
portrait of the prince de wagram and his daughter malcy louise caroline frederique napoléon alexandre berthier (1837)
portrait of victoria of the united kingdom (1843)
portrait of victoria of the united kingdom (1844-1845)
prince albert (1842)
queen victoria (1842)
queen victoria (1843)
queen victoria and prince albert with the family of king louis philippe at the chateau (1845)
roman genre scene (1833)
self-portrait of the artist with his brother, hermann (1840)
sophie guillemette, grand duchess of baden (1831)
the decameron (1837)
the royal family in 1846 (1846)
victoria, princess royal (1842)