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Nacido en Zürich, Fuseli empezó como escritor vinculado al Sturm und Drang, movimiento pre-romántico que buscaba la expresión (o mas bien explosión) de los sentimientos. Muy pronto se iniciaría en la pintura, en la que ya refleja un gusto por lo grotesco y lo oscuro.
7 de ene. de 2023 · Sueño de una noche de verano. Henry Fuseli se enamoró de William Shakespeare en su juventud en Suíza, y se inspiraría a menudo en las obras del escritor para crear muchas pinturas durante toda su carrera (como Macbeth, por ejemplo).
View all 31 artworks. Henry Fuseli lived in the XVIII – XIX cent., a remarkable figure of Swiss Romanticism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- February 7, 1741
- April 17, 1825
9 de dic. de 2016 · The Nightmare, o El íncubo, es un extraño cuadro de Johann Heinrich Füssli, o como le llamaron los ingleses, Henry Fuseli. El pintor suizo se fue a probar suerte a Gran Bretaña y ya se estableció en el país, siendo admirado por su erudición en arte.
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- The Legacy of Henry Fuseli
Johann Heinrich Füssli (known as Henry Fuseli) was born in Zürich on February 7th, 1741. He was the second of 18 children born to the Swiss portrait painter, Johann Caspar Füssli and his wife, Anna Elisabeth Waser. Caspar was a collector of sixteenth and seventeenth century Swiss art and passed his appreciation of fine art onto his son. Indeed, Fus...
Fuseli was ordained as a priest in 1761. However, he was forced to leave Switzerland soon thereafter for helping Lavater expose a corrupt and vengeful magistrate. He crossed the border into Germany where he fell under the influence of the German Enlightenment, a philosophical movement which dominated European thought during the eighteenth century. ...
By 1773 Fuseli was already making a name for himself in Rome with a strong connection to the German proto-Romantic Sturm und Drang movement. Sturm und Drang lasted from the late 1760s to the early 1780s and championed the freedom of subjective expression over the rationalism that had helped define the new era of Enlightenment. Goethe, a protagonist...
John Boydell, the eminent engraver and publisher of the period, commissioned a number of important artists, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, to illustrate scenes from Shakespeare with the goal of producing an illustrated companion for his plays. Fuseli, who had fallen in love with the London Theatre, and especially the plays of Shakespeare, contribut...
A successful artist in his own lifetime, the foundations of his legacy were put in place when his style was parodied by eminent satirists of the day including Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray. Fuseli directly influenced a number of younger artists including William Blake, Theodor von Holst, the Pre-Raphaelite, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and, through...
- February 7, 1741
- April 16, 1825
25 de jun. de 2023 · The Romantic artwork painted by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli has lived on long after his lifetime in the 18th-19th centuries. His most well-known painting, “The Nightmare” is characteristic of the supernatural and dark subjects he was drawn to depict.
Se inspira en las historias de Shakespeare y en muchos otros poetas para reproducir bellas escenas. De su producción hay que destacar obras como: Aquiles en la pira de Patrocles, Pesadilla o El debutante. Su obra sirvió de fuente de inspiración para William Blake . Contexto Monumentos Museos Obras Personajes Videos.
