Eduard Ritter, 1835 - Sitting young man in a black skirt - fine art print

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Ritter had been taught at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the years 1829-1834 in the history painting. The first painting, with whom he participated in an academy exhibition (1830, no. 235), was, however, no historical or mythological scene as it could be provided for a student of this subject, but a self-portrait. The stay of this painting is unknown today, but the portrait shown here can a young man, which was created five years later, to give an impression of high artistic level that the young painter had already reached in the 1830s. What is unusual about this depiction is the perspective, because in the foreground the small tables can be seen, only behind the portrayed sitting. Through this game with the optical illusion and the hand shown in excellent shortening that moreover leafing through natural movement in a book, Ritter documented an artistic level, could make the few artists of his time claimed for itself. A suggestion for the space-creating "set piece" in the foreground may be found in the paintings of Gerard Dou (1613-1675), who could know our painters from the Imperial Collection in the Upper Belvedere (today Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna). Perhaps the "referee" (1529, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Inv 783) inspired him by Barthel Beham (1502 to 1540) d or portraits of Hans Holbein. J. (1497-1543), which were available as reproductions. These possible models, however, were very independently implemented in this image and timely adapted. The figure in its overall appearance conveys a unique proximity to life, for instance through the open features, the intelligent-questioning look, the soft molded lips and the relaxed-looking posture. This impression is reinforced by the clear, fresh colors and a painting technique that using fine but easily applied shades modeled the body gently. Unusual is also the folded-back tablecloth by which the attached to the quill of the painter signature becomes visible. [Sabine Grabner, in: Grabner, Sabine: More than Biedermeier. Classicism, Romanticism and Realism in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Munich 2006, p 82f]

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Sitting young man in a black skirt is an artwork made by the German painter Eduard Ritter in the year 1835. The 180 year old version of the work of art was painted with the size: 38,5 x 30 cm - frame dimensions: 47 x 38 x 6 cm. Oil on canvas was applied by the artist as the technique for the artwork. The original artwork has the following inscription: signed and dated lower right: p knight. / 1835th. This piece of art belongs to the Belvedere's art collection in Vienna, Austria. This public domain artwork is being included with courtesy of © Belvedere, Vienna, inventory number: 5028. : purchase from the Dorotheum, Vienna in 1955. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an aspect ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Eduard Ritter was a artist, painter, etcher, drawer, lithographer of German nationality, whose artistic style can be classified as Realism. The artist was born in 1820 in Hamburg, Hamburg state, Germany and passed away at the age of 72 in the year 1892.

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