. Art and artists of our time . Like thegreater number of his artist brethren, Spangenberg has made his wandering year—born inHamburg in 1828, he has studied in his native city, in Antwerp, in Paris, England, Holland,again in Paris, with Couture, and a year in the atelier of that very amateurish amateur,Triqueti, then to Italy, and at last to Berlin, where he finally settled dovrai, and where webelieve he is still painting. He began with small genre pieces, leaning to no special class ofsubjects— The Stolen Child, The Rat-catcher of Hamelin, St. Johns Eve in Cologne, The Foresters Family, etc.
. Art and artists of our time . Like thegreater number of his artist brethren, Spangenberg has made his wandering year—born inHamburg in 1828, he has studied in his native city, in Antwerp, in Paris, England, Holland,again in Paris, with Couture, and a year in the atelier of that very amateurish amateur,Triqueti, then to Italy, and at last to Berlin, where he finally settled dovrai, and where webelieve he is still painting. He began with small genre pieces, leaning to no special class ofsubjects— The Stolen Child, The Rat-catcher of Hamelin, St. Johns Eve in Cologne, The Foresters Family, etc., etc., then took a fancy to the Reformation-time, and paintedno end of Luthers—our readers know them weU; the good Martin is the George Washingtonof Germany, and Spangenbergs article is as sound and reliable as a Trumbull or a Stuart.■ Luther in the Bosom of his Family, Luther Translating the Bible, Luther in the Houseof Cotta, Luthers Entrance into Worms—these are a few titles by way of sample; we ,, ■■.! W m-f. ■ ■■■ -^ in the gloaming. FROM THE PICTURE BY GUSTAV SPANGENBERG ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 197 have no mind to weary our readers witli a sight of the pictures the titles stand for, but ratherprefer to show them one where the artist has stepped a little out of the conventional ruts,mthout at the same time losing the German accent. The Twilight Hour, embodies one ofthe many old legends of the German fireside, that relate to the fairies, gnomes, pixies, andother creatures that haunt the woods and waters, and the secret places of the earth, and exer-cise an influence on man and his belongings. As the mother sits in her arm-chair by thecradle of her child, after the days work done, the gnomes steal up from the earth—queer, un-canny beings, in the shape of little, stunted, deformed old men—and diaw near to the cradleto watch the sleeping baby. The gnomes are the embodiment of the earth-forces: the strengthof the metals is in their sinews, they b
Size: 3399px × 735px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookde, booksubjectpainters, booksubjectpainting
