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Wilhelm Amberg (born 25 February 1822 in Berlin,[1] died 10 September 1899 in Berlin) was a German genre painter.

Wilhelm Amberg: In Gedanken versunken - Lost in thoughts
Wilhelm Amberg: In Gedanken versunken - Lost in thoughts

Biography


He was educated by the painters Carl Joseph Begas in Berlin and Léon Cogniet in Paris (1845). After this he spent a couple of years in Rome. His paintings are characterized by humour and a poetic atmosphere. Wilhelm Amberg has won many awards and from 1886 was a Member of the Senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts, Berlin.


Works


Painting, Vorlesung aus Goethes Werther, Reading from  Goethe's Werther, 1870
Painting, Vorlesung aus Goethes "Werther", Reading from Goethe's Werther, 1870

The painting depicting A reading from the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther shows five young girls seated in a romantic spot in the nature, who went outdoors to read from this novel. One of them is crying, leaning on the other girl's shoulders. The other one is leaning towards the girl reading, with intense attentiveness, also having a handkerchief in her hand, the same as the girl sitting beside the reader. She also has one, that is beside her placed on the vegetation overgrown with moss she sits on ... all the young girls are moved by the lecture.

Soon after its publication in 1774, young women were impressed by the novel and young men began to dress in yellow pants and blue jackets, like young Werther, the main character in the novel. Werther shoots himself with a pistol after he is rejected by the woman he loves, and shortly after its publication there were many reports of young men using the same method to kill themselves in an act of hopelessness.


Selected works



Literature



References


  1. Sutton, Peter C. (1990). Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Sixteenth Through the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-8122-8239-9.




На других языках


[de] Wilhelm Amberg

August Wilhelm Amberg (* 25. Februar 1822 in Berlin; † 8. September 1899 ebenda) war ein deutscher Genremaler.
- [en] Wilhelm Amberg

[fr] Wilhelm Amberg

Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg (né le 25 février 1822 à Berlin, mort le 8 septembre 1899 ibid.) est un peintre allemand de scènes de genre.

[ru] Амберг, Вильгельм Август Лебрехт

Вильгельм Август Лебрехт Амберг (нем. Wilhelm Amberg; 25 февраля 1822[1][2][3][…], Берлин — 8 сентября 1899[4], Берлин) — немецкий художник, признанный мастер жанровой живописи XIX века[5].



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