Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, 1761 - The Prodigal Son Living with Harlots - fine art print

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The 18th century piece of art titled "The Prodigal Son Living with Harlots" was created by the male artist Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in 1761. Furthermore, the artwork belongs to the Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark)'s digital collection in Copenhagen, Denmark. With courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark (public domain license).Creditline of the artwork: . What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a side ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter, etcher Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner was an artist, whose art style was mainly Baroque. The artist lived for 49 years - born in the year 1712 in Kufstein, Tyrol, Austria and deceased in the year 1761.

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In Baumgartners painting depicting the biblical tale, the Prodigal Son does not yet know that he is lost. Engrossed with the charms of women, wine, and music he pays no heed to the dark side of debauchery. In his small oil painting depicting the biblical tale about the prodigal son Baumgartner not only used the rocaille as a frame, but as a motif in itself. The rocaille, a type of ornament typical of the Rococo, winds its way into the architectural setting of the scene, dissolving stone niches and intermingling with the food of the balustrade. As a child of the waves, sister to the seashell and twin to the corals the rocaille feels right at home within Baumgartner’s pastel-hued universe where the prodigal son does not yet know that he is lost. Engrossed with the charms of women, wine, and music he pays no heed to the dark side of debauchery.

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner’s career was nothing if not versatile. First he was apprenticed as a blacksmith, then as a glass painter and a muralist. Posterity knows him as a creator of large-scale decorative work for churches where frescoes merge seamlessly with the Rococo architecture of the altarpieces. Baumgartner was also a prolific supplier of drawn and painted images for the major printmakers in the city of Augsburg. These printmakers issued many series depicting edifying biblical tales such The Prodigal Son, or calendars featuring some of the countless martyrs of Christianity.

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