{"id":3472,"date":"2019-09-05T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:41:15","slug":"johann-anton-ramboux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/johann-anton-ramboux\/","title":{"rendered":"Johann Anton Ramboux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Double Portrait of the Painter Konrad Eberhard and his Brother\nFranz <\/em>is one of the most significant\nfriendships of German Romanticism and Nazarenes. Artistically and technically, Johann\nAnton Ramboux\u2019s Double Portrait<\/em> has been described as masterpiece and one\nof the great accomplishments of the early stage of the lithography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The present sheet\nis one of the most beautiful impressions we have ever seen. The chalk lithograph\nis perfectly fresh and contrasted, with strong pressure, all the nuances finely\nemphasized and with graduated tonal tones. The fine texture of the paper\nperfectly displays Ramboux exquisite handling of the medium, evoking the sheen\nof a silverpoint drawing. It is a masterly tour-de-force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Double\nPortrait of the Painter Konrad Eberhard and his Brother Franz <\/em>was\nprinted in a very small number of impressions, probably for the Eberhards\nthemselves to distribute amongst friends. The approach of the Munich based\nprinter Johann Anton Selb appears to have been experimental, and there was no\nstandard edition. Some impressions were printed with an additional tint tone\n(brown) on wove paper, other on China paper. As far as we know, there are 17\nimpressions in public collections. In 1975 Winkler recorded nine examples in\nGerman museums. Another one was at the Art Institute of Chicago and since then\na further seven have entered museum collections. Remaining impressions in\nprivate hands are of the utmost rarity.\n\nFormerly a pupil of Jean-Louis David in Paris, Ramboux\nspent the years between 1816 and 1822 in Rome, where he became acquainted with\nthe sculptor and painter Konrad Eberhard and his brother Franz, who also worked\nas a sculptor, in the circle of the Nazarenes (a circle of German artists who\nrejected neo-classicism and extolled a return to religious painting inspired by\nthe art of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance). The genre of the double\nportrait, or Freundschaftsbild<\/em>, was an important subject for this\ngroup of artists, who held an idealised view of friendship as integral to the\nlife of the artist, associating it with medieval guilds and\nconfraternities.  Still in Rome, Ramboux made a small double portrait of\nthese two brothers on oil, which is now at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in\nCologne. At the same time, the lithograph was created, to the same scale. Then,\ntogether, Ramboux and the Eberhard brothers left the city in 1822 and moved\nnorth. Having arrived in Munich, Johann Anton Selb got a very small edition of\nit (see below).\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Double Portrait of the Painter Konrad Eberhard and his Brother Franz is one of the most significant friendships of German Romanticism and Nazarenes. Artistically and technically, Johann Anton Ramboux\u2019s Double Portrait has been described as masterpiece and one of the great accomplishments of the early stage of the lithography. The present sheet is one of … Continue reading “Johann Anton Ramboux”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3490\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3469\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillisgoldman.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}