Self-portrait with family, c. 1820, Behnhaus.

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (4 July 1789 – 1869), was a German painter and member of the Nazarene movement. He also made four etchings. Download high resolution version (2024x2584, 313 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (2024x2584, 313 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Selfportrait: Friedrich Overbeck with family, ca. ... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... -1... Christ Preaching, known as The Hundred Guilder print; etching c1648 by Rembrandt Etching is the process of using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal (the original process - in modern manufacturing other chemicals may be used...

Biography

Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors; his father Christian Adolph Overbeck (1755-1821) was doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist and burgomaster of Lubeck. His grandparents were Georg Christian Overbeck (1713-1786), lawyer at Lübeck, and Eleonora Maria Jauch (1732-1797). Within a stones throw of the family mansion in the Konigstrasse stood the gymnasium, where the uncle, doctor of theology and a voluminous writer, was the master; there the nephew became a classic scholar and received instruction in art. Lübeck ( pronunc. ... Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 214. ... The Jauch family is a German family, originating from Sulza near Jena in Thuringia, where Georg Jauch (1606-1675) was Burgomaster. ...

The young artist left Lubeck in March 1806, and entered as student the academy of Vienna, then under the direction of Heinrich Füger, a painter of some renown, but of the neoclassical school of the French Jacques-Louis David. Here was gained thorough knowledge, but the teachings and associations proved unendurable to the sensitive, spiritual-minded youth. Overbeck wrote to a friend that he had fallen among a vulgar set, that every noble thought was suppressed within the academy and that losing all faith in humanity he turned inwardly on himself. These words are a key to his future position and art. It seemed to him that in Vienna, and indeed throughout Europe, the pure springs of Christian art had been for centuries diverted and corrupted, and so he sought out afresh the living source, and, casting on one side his contemporaries, took for his guides the early and pre-Raphael painters of Italy. At the end of four years, differences had grown so irreconcilable that Overbeck and his band of followers were expelled from the academy. True art, he writes, he had sought in Vienna in vain: “Wien” redirects here. ... Heinrich Füger Heinrich Füger (1751-1818) was a German historical painter, born at Heilbronn, Württemberg. ... Late Baroque classicizing: G. P. Pannini assembles the canon of Roman ruins and Roman sculpture into one vast imaginary gallery (1756) Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that... Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. ...

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Overbeck in 1810 entered Rome, which became for 59 years the centre of his labor. He was joined by a goodly company, including Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Philipp Veit, who took up their abode in the old Franciscan convent of San Isidoro and became known among friends and enemies by the descriptive epithet the Nazarenes, the German-Roman artists, the church-romantic painters, the German patriotic and religious painters. Their precept was hard and honest work and holy living; they eschewed the antique as pagan, the Renaissance as false, and built up a severe revival on simple nature and on the serious art of Perugino, Pinturicchio, Francia and the young Raphael. The characteristics of the style thus educed were nobility of idea, precision and even hardness of outline, scholastic composition, with the addition of light, shade and colour, not for allurement, but chiefly for perspicuity and completion of motive. Overbeck was mentor in the movement; a fellow-labourer writes: No one who saw him or heard him speak could question his purity of motive, his deep insight and abounding knowledge; he is a treasury of art and poetry, and a saintly man. But the struggle was hard and poverty its reward. Helpful friends, however, came in Niebuhr, Bunsen and Frederick Schlegel. Overbeck in 1813 joined the Roman Catholic Church, and thereby he believed that his art received Christian baptism. 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Peter von Cornelius (1784 - 1867), German painter, was born in Düsseldorf. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789 - 1862), a German Romantic painter, was the second son of Johann Gottfried Schadow. ... Philipp Veit (1793—1877) was a German Romantic painter. ... -1... Look up pagan, heathen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ... Christ presenting the Keys to St Peter Fresco, 335 x 550 cm Sistine Chapel, Rome Pietro Perugino (1446-1524), whose family name was properly Vannucci, Italian painter, was born at Città della Pieve in Umbria, and belongs to the Umbrian school of painting. ... The Crucifixion with Sts Jerome and Christopher (1471) Oil on wood, 59 x 40 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome Pinturicchio (1454-1513), Italian painter, whose full name was Bernardino di Betti. ... Statue of Charlemagne (also called Karl der Große, Charles the Great) in Frankfurt, Germany. ... Raphael Sanzio or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. ... Barthold Georg Niebuhr. ... Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. ... Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (March 10, 1772 - January 11, 1829), German poet, critic and scholar, was the younger brother of August Wilhelm von Schlegel. ... Year 1813 (MDCCCXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic... Baptism in early Christian art. ...

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Timely commissions followed. The Prussian consul, Jakob Salomon Bartholdy (1779-1825, uncle of Felix Mendelssohn), had a house on the brow of the Pincian, called Palazzo Zuccari or Casa Bartholdy, and he engaged Overbeck, Peter von Cornelius, Philipp Veit and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow to decorate a room 7 m square with frescoes (now in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin) from the story of Joseph and his Brethren. The subjects which fell to the lot of Overbeck were the Seven Years of Famine and Joseph sold by his Brethren. These tentative wall-pictures, finished in 1818, produced so favourable an impression among the Italians that in the same year Prince Massimo commissioned Overbeck, Cornelius, Veit and Schnorr to cover the walls and ceilings of his garden pavilion, near St. John Lateran, with frescoes illustrative of Tasso, Dante and Ariosto. To Overbeck was assigned, in a room 5 m square, the illustration of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered; and of eleven compositions the largest and most noteworthy, occupying one entire wall, is the Meeting of Godfrey de Bouillon and Peter the Hermit. After ten years delay, the overtaxed and enfeebled painter delegated the completion of the frescoes to his friend Joseph von Führich. The leisure thus gained was devoted to a thoroughly congenial theme, the Vision of St Francis, a wall-painting 6.5 m long, figures life size, finished in 1830, for the Porziuncola in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1011x900, 110 KB) Summary Friedrich Overbeck (1789 - 1869) Italia und Germania Licensing Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1011x900, 110 KB) Summary Friedrich Overbeck (1789 - 1869) Italia und Germania Licensing Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... The Neue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. ... Motto Suum cuique Latin: To each his own Prussia at its peak, as leading state of the German Empire Capital Königsberg, later Berlin Government Duke1  - 1525–68 Albert I (first)  - 1688–1701 Frederick III (last) King1  - 1701–13 Frederick I (first)  - 1888–1918 William II (last) Prime Minister1,2... Consul (abbrev. ... Jakob Salomon Bartholdy (1779-1825) was a Prussian diplomat, born in Berlin of Jewish parentage, and educated at the University of Halle. ... Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Joseph interprets the dream of the Pharaoh. ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld (1794 - 1872), German painter, was born at Leipzig, where he received his earliest instruction from his father Johann Veit Schnorr (1764-1841), a draughtsman, engraver and painter. ... Late Baroque façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, completed after a competition for the design by Alessandro Galilei in 1735 Lateran and Laterano are the shared names of several architectural projects throughout Rome and Vatican City. ... “Tasso” redirects here. ... DANTE is also a digital audio network. ... Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 _ July 6, 1533) was a Ferrarese poet, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso (1516), Orlando Enraged. He was born at Reggio, in Hungary in 1518, and wished Aniosto to accompany him. ... Godfrey of Bouillon (c. ... Peter the Hermit shows the crusaders the way to Jerusalem. ... The walk to Emmaus, painted by Josef von Führich Joseph von Führich (February 9, 1800 - March 13, 1876), Austrian painter, was born at Kratzau in Bohemia. ... the Porziuncola Porziuncola, also called Portiuncula (in Latin) or Porzioncula, is a town and parish situated about three-quarters of a mile from Assisi. ... Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi. ... This article is about the Italian town. ...

Overbeck and the brethren set themselves the task of recovering the neglected art of fresco and of monumental painting; they adopted the old methods, and their success led to memorable revivals throughout Europe. Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas. ...

Fifty years of the artist's laborious life were given to oil and easel paintings, including:

• Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (1824), in the Marienkirche.(destroyed through Allied bombing, Palm Sunday 1942).
• Christ's Agony in the Garden (1835), in the great hospital, Hamburg
• Lo Sposalizio (1836), Muzeum Narodowe, Poznań, Poland.
• The Triumph of Religion in the Arts (1840), in the Städel Institute, Frankfurt
• Pietà (1846), in the Marienkirche, Lübeck.
• The Incredulity of St. Thomas (1851), first in the possession of Beresford Hope, London, now in the Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt, Germany.
• The Assumption of the Madonna (1855), in Cologne Cathedral.
• Christ Delivered from the Jews (1858), tempera, originally on a ceiling in the Quirinal Palace. It is a commission from Pius IX, and a direct attack on the Italian temporal government, therefore later covered by a canvas adorned with Cupids, and now hanging in front of the Aula delle benedizione in the Vatican .

All the artist's works are marked by religious fervour, careful and protracted study, with a dry, severe handling, and an abstemious colour. The Luebecker Marienkirche (St Marys Church of Luebeck) was constructed between 1250 and 1350 and for many years has been a symbol of the power and prosperity of the old Hanseatic city. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Location Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE6 First Mayor Ole von Beust (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 3 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  755 km² (292 sq mi) Population 1,754,317 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 2,324 /km² (6,018... PoznaÅ„ ( ; full official name: The Capital City of PoznaÅ„, Polish: StoÅ‚eczne Miasto PoznaÅ„ (Latin: , German: , Yiddish: פּױזן Poyzn) is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,900 inhabitants (2002). ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... The Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, official name: ) is one of the best-known architectural monuments in Germany and has been Colognes most famous landmark since its completion in the late 19th century. ... A 1367 tempera on wood by Niccolò Semitecolo. ... The Quirinal Palace once housed popes, then kings, and now presidents. ... Pope Pius IX (May 13, 1792 – February 7, 1878), born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from his election in June 16, 1846, until his death more than 31 years later in 1878, making him the longest-reigning Pope since the Apostle St. ...

Overbeck belongs to eclectic schools, and yet was creative; he ranks among thinkers, and his pen was hardly less busy than his pencil. He was a minor poet, an essayist and a voluminous letter-writer. His style is wordy and tedious; like his art it is borne down with emotion and possessed by a somewhat morbid subjectivity. His pictures were didactic, and used as means of propaganda for his artistic and religious faith, and the teachings of such compositions as the Triumph of Religion and the Sacraments he enforced by rapturous literary effusions. His art was the issue of his life: his constant thoughts, cherished in solitude and chastened by prayer, he transposed into pictorial forms, and thus were evolved countless and much-prized drawings and cartoons, of which the most considerable are the Gospels, forty cartoons (1852); Via Crucis, fourteen water-color drawings (1857); the Seven Sacraments, seven cartoons (1861). Overbeck's compositions, with few exceptions, are engraved. His life-work he sums up in the words "Art to me is as the harp of David, whereupon I would desire that psalms should at all times be sounded to the praise of the Lord."

He died in Rome in 1869. He was interred in the church of San Bernardo alle Terme Facade of San Bernardo. ...

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Encyclopædia Britannica, the eleventh edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

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• Johann Friedrich Overbeck in the "History of Art"
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