Related Paintings of Georges de Feure :. | Duke Fredrick banishing Rosalind from his Court (mk37) | Vicor Chocquet | The women stallion Leal in the Levade | Erato at Her Lyre | Hooded Crows |
Related Artists:
Jan van der Straet
painted Vanity, Modesty and Death in 1569
h. olrik

Morgenstern, Christian
German, 1805-1867 German painter. After training from 1824 with Siegfried Bendixen (1786-1864) in Hamburg, he studied at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen in 1827 and made sketching trips to Sweden and Norway. He then settled permanently in Munich. He was influenced in particular by 17th-century Dutch painters, notably Jacob van Ruisdael, the Copenhagen plein-air painters, the emerging Norwegian landscape school and the early Realist painters working in Munich, such as Johann Georg von Dillis. Morgenstern explored objective, pure landscape painting with intimate motifs in such works as Beech-tree Trunks in Fredericksdal near Copenhagen (1828; Hamburg, Ksthalle). He also painted scenes combining closely rendered foreground details with extensive,