Johann Knapp, 1822 - Homage to Jacquin (Jacquin monument) - fine art print

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The picture was given in honor of the eminent botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817) on the occasion of its fourth anniversary of the death in order. Jacquin was a professor of botany and chemistry at the University of Vienna and was at the Botanical Garden as a director before. The marble pedestal on which the hard shell with the colorful floral arrangement rests, carrying a relief the bust Jacquin. The highest fidelity of the painter Johann Knapp shows not only native plants and natural history as well as exotic fruits and flowers, such as the red flowering Phyllocactus left of the stone vase or the orange bird of paradise flower Strelitzia in the middle of the big ostrich. The painter enjoyed even as a flower and fruit painter in k. k. Dutch Garden at Schönbrunn high reputation. Its plants representations were not for decorative purposes but met scientific standards. In this gorgeous bouquet he combined with selected examples the twenty-four genera of the Linnean system. Because it was Jacquin, who introduced the systematization of the flora of the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in Austria. Right in the niche is its memorial urn. [Sabine Grabner 8/2009]

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In 1822 the artist Johann Knapp made the artpiece "Homage to Jacquin (Jacquin monument)". The original has the following size 218 x 164 cm - frame: 246 × 194 × 14 cm. Oil on canvas was applied by the artist as the technique for the painting. Signed and dated lower right of the stone base: JOHANN KNAPP / FECIT / MDCCCXXII / SCHOENBRUNN; and on marble base: VOCAT NATURA / ARTEM / utraque / TE IMMORTALEM. / OPST MEYER .; as the right side: LINN AEI. was the artwork's inscription. This work of art is in the the digital art collection of Belvedere in Vienna, Austria. With courtesy of © Belvedere, Vienna, inventory number: 3651 (public domain). : transfer from Hofburg, Vienna in 1939. On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 3 : 4, which means that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Johann Knapp was a painter, whose artistic style was primarily Realism. The Austrian artist was born in the year 1778 in Vienna, Vienna state, Austria and deceased at the age of 55 in the year 1833 in Vienna.

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For every art print we offer a range of different sizes & materials. The following sizes and materials are the options we offer you for individualization:

• Printed acrylic glass (with real glass coating): The print on acrylic glass, often named a print on plexiglass, will convert the artwork into great décor. The artwork is being printed with the help of state-of-the-art UV direct printing machines. It creates vivid, impressive colors. With an acrylic glass fine art print contrasts and also minor artwork details become more exposed due to the subtle tonal gradation of the print.
• Poster (canvas material): The poster print is a UV printed canvas paper with a slight structure on the surface, which resembles the actual version of the masterpiece. The print poster is perfectly suited for putting the art print with a customized frame. Please note, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin of around 2 - 6cm round about the painting, which facilitates the framing with your custom frame.
• Canvas: A UV printed canvas mounted on a wooden frame. A canvas creates the plastic look of three-dimensionality. A canvas print has the great advantage of being relatively low in weight, which means that it is easy to hang up your Canvas print without the use of extra wall-mounts. Therefore, canvas prints are suitable for any type of wall.
• Metal (aluminium dibond print): Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with an impressive effect of depth. A direct Direct Print on Aluminum Dibond is the perfect introduction to fine art prints with aluminum. For the Direct Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print the favorite artpiece on the aluminium white-primed surface. Colors are luminous, details are very clear.

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