Fuseli - the Wild Swiss : [Exhibition Füssli - the Wild Swiss 14 October 2005 - 8 January 2006 at the Kunsthaus Zürich]. Transl. by Suzanne Walters and Carol Escow.

Füssli, Johann Heinrich and Franziska Lentzsch:

ISBN 10: 3858817031 / ISBN 13: 9783858817037

Edité par Zürich : Scheidegger and Spiess, 2005

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271 S. : zahlr. Illustrationen (auch farbig) ; 28 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Leinenband mit farb. illustr. OUmschlag. Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag stw. gering berieben. - Englisch. - Johann Heinrich Füssli RA (* 7. Februar 1741 in Zürich; 16. April 1825 in Putney bei London) war ein schweizerisch-englischer Maler und Publizist, der in England als Henry Fuseli bekannt wurde. Füssli thematisiert in seinem Werk immer wieder die Welt der Träume und Visionen, oft des Grauens, und er wird dabei von englischen Gespenstergeschichten inspiriert. In seinen Bildern verliert die konkrete Welt des Äusseren an Faszination gegenüber der Welt des Subjekts (Der Nachtmahr oder Der Alp in mehreren Versionen um 1781). Füssli schuf neun Gemälde zur boydellschen Shakespeare-Gallery und einen Zyklus von 47 Bildern zu John Miltons Das verlorene Paradies. … (wiki) // In Britain, he was known as the "Wild Swiss", but was nevertheless seen as a British artist, Henry Fuseli born Johann Heinrich Füssli in 1741 and educated in Zurich, after publishing a pamphlet against a corrupt local governor. Fuseli was forced to emigrate and settled in London in 1764. He became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1790, Professor of Painting at the RA in 1799, and was elected Keeper of the RA in 1804. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral in 1825. The mentor of William Blake, Fuseli is regarded as a key figure of the early Romantic movement. This monograph shows Fuseli as a highly educated and sophisticated inventor of uniquely powerful and idiosyncratic images and of surprising interpretations of the great texts of world literature. Fuseli is probably most famous for his paintings illustrating the works of William Shakespeare and John Milton, populated by elemental spirits, goblins and other deliriously fantastic creatures, often infused with a playful ironic undertone. This book also shows his early drawings, inspired by Hans Holbein and Michelangelo, his monumental historical paintings, and his sometimes sado-masochistic erotic drawings. It presents little known aspects of Fuseli's work, such as portraits of fashionably dressed women with extravagant hairdos and the erotic drawings, offering new insight into the exuberantly fertile imagination of this master of the fantastic. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Foreword. ----- Henry Fuseli - Johann Heinrich Fiissli ----- Zurich 1741- 1825 London. ----- BERNHARD VON WALDKIRCH ----- Fuseli's Early Drawings: Transformations in Expression ----- CHRISTIAN KLEMM ----- The Principles of Fuseli's Art ----- or the Aesthetics of the Stroke of Genius. ----- CHRISTOPH BECKER ----- Friar Puck and Fairy-shot: The Spirits in Fuseli's Art. ----- CHRISTIAN KLEMM ----- Friedel's Love and Kriemhild's Revenge: ----- Fuseli's Revels in the Kingdom of the Nibelungs. ----- FRANZISKA LENTZSCH ----- London's Theatres - Drury Lane and Somerset House ----- All the City's a Stage. ----- Reference ----- Chronology of Henry Fuseli. ----- List of Works Exhibited. ----- Bibliography. ----- Credits. ISBN 9783858817037 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

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• Titre: Fuseli - the Wild Swiss : [Exhibition Füssli - the Wild Swiss 14 October 2005 - 8 January 2006 at the Kunsthaus Zürich]. Transl. by Suzanne Walters and Carol Escow.
• Éditeur: Zürich : Scheidegger and Spiess
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3858817031
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783858817037
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Gut
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Poids: 1600 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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In Britain he was known as the "Wild Swiss", but was nevertheless seen as a British artist: Henry Fuseli, born Johann Heinrich Fussli in 1741 and educated in Zurich. After publishing a pamphlet against a corrupt local governor, who was consequently chased out of town, Fuseli was forced to emigrate and settled 1764 in London. He became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1790, professor of painting and history of art at the RA in 1799, and was elected Keeper of the RA in 1804. He was buried at St. Paul's Cathedral in 1825. This monograph shows Fuseli as a highly educated and sophisticated inventor of uniquely powerful and idiosyncratic images and surprising interpretations of the great texts of world literature. Fuseli is probably most famous for his paintings illustrating the works of William Shakespeare and John Milton, populated by elemental spirits, goblins and other deliciously fantastic creatures, often infused with a playful ironic undertone. Besides, this book shows his early drawings, inspired by Hans Holbein and Michelangelo, and his monumental historical paintings. It also presents little known aspects of Fuseli's work: portraits of fashionably dressed women with extravagant hairdos and erotic drawings, offering yet another insight into the exuberantly fertile imagination of this master of the fantastic. This book accompanies a retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zurich in collaboration with Tate Britain, where Fuseli's work will be on show in the exhibition "Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli Blake and the Romantic Imagination" in 2006.

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FranziskaLentzsch is a research assistant and curator at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Christoph Becker is director of the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, and specializes in nineteenth-century art. Christian Klemm is deputy director of the Kunsthaus Zurich. Bernhard von Waldkirch is curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Kunsthaus Zurich ."