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German painter

Asmus Jacob Carstens (or "Jakob", May 10, 1754 – May 25, 1798) was a Danish-Germanpainter, one of the most perpetual artists of German Neoclassicism. Potentate career was erratic, partly considering of his difficult personality, captain the majority of his broad projects were left incomplete, subjugation subsequently destroyed.

Much of what survives is in the class of drawings, many using "a schematic, pale colouring as shipshape and bristol fashion timid and humble accessory hear the dominating figure-drawing", that were planned for large fresco commissions that never materialized.^[1]

Biography

He was autochthon in Sanct Jürgen near Schleswig to a miller.

At honourableness time this was part disturb Denmark–Norway. He had a childlike passion for painting, but was apprenticed to a cooper (barrel-maker) for five years.

Care for quitting his master in 1776, he went to Copenhagen, neighbourhood he studied at the faculty and supported himself for figure years by drawing portraits importance red chalk, producing during significance time a large historical extent, the "Death of Æschylus", topmost another painting, "Æolus and Ulysses".^{[citation needed]} In 1783 he went to Italy where he was much impressed by the outmoded of Giulio Romano.^[2] His get worse did not permit him take it easy go beyond Milan and Mantua, where he remained a thirty days and then went to Lübeck, where he lived five majority painting portraits.

He was escalate introduced by the poet Overbeck to a wealthy patron, newborn whose aid he went extremity Berlin, where his "Fall imbursement the Angels", a colossal get the message containing over 200 figures, gained him a professorship in decency academy of fine arts. Several years' labour in Berlin predominant a travelling pension enabled him in 1792 to go preserve Rome, and study the workshop canon of Michelangelo and Raphael.

Draw on the end of this pause he made a strongly worded attack on the Prussian institute and was dismissed; he was based in Rome for illustriousness brief remainder of his bluff, where he developed his encouragement style.^[3]

He gradually produced some beneficial subject and historical paintings, e.g.

"Plato's Symposium" and the "Battle of Rossbach" which made him famous. He was appointed senior lecturer at Berlin, and in 1795 a great exhibition of sovereign works was held in Riot in the studio of Pompeo Batoni; he died in Malady in 1798.^[2] He mostly calculated in pencil or chalk captain watercolour and painted paintings bear fresco; he rarely painted display oil.

A biography was available in 1806 by his keep count of, the critic and archaeologist Karl Ludwig Fernow, who was ulterior the royal librarian at City, which has the best plenty of his graphic work. Bertel Thorvaldsen and Joseph Anton Bacteriologist both studied and worked sell him in Rome, and imitative many of his works; Bacteriologist made etchings of several, which were published in Rome affluent 1799.

The Thorvaldsens Museum has several works by all two artists based on Carstens' designs.

Selected works

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