Angelica Kaufman biography

In childhood, she studied with her father, painter Joseph Iohanna Kaufman, spent most of her youth in Italy. The influence of A. since the end of the 10ths of Angelik Kaufman began to receive orders for portraits; Her work was distinguished by a smooth manner of writing and a thorough transmission of details. Very early acquired wide European fame. In Rome, she wrote a portrait of I.

to the artist came to London, where she lived for 15 years, being very popular as a portrait and a decorator. Along with portraits, she wrote scenes on mythological literary plots. Her admirer was Falcone, who was also a friend and admirer of Reynolds's work. In the year, while working in St. Petersburg on the monument to Peter I, Falcone shared his impressions from the artist’s English traveler and said that "he was the owner of almost all her works." The Grand Duchess, and then Empress Maria Fedorovna, the wife of Emperor Paul I, wrote miniatures on glass from the works of the artist.

She married the Venetian artist Antonio Zucci and settled in Rome, where she also worked on orders. Angelik Kaufman died in Rome on November 5 in her canvases of the early period of the image of the characters in the poses of the heroes of the works of ancient sculpture, a clear, prevailing over the color, the drawing indicate the interest in the painting of A. Mengs, the perception of the aesthetic ideas of the neoclassicism of the Wacch and Ariadne, the Bragean, and the art museum.

I visited Milan, Venice, Naples, Florence.

In Florence, by order of the Ufitsi Gallery, A. Kaufman fulfills his self -portrait and becomes a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. She lives and works in London. In England, Angelica Kaufman became the only woman-artist chosen by a member of the London Royal Academy. The portraits of representatives of the English nobility performed in England brought the artist a great success.

For one of the halls of London Somerset House, she performed four tondo forms with allegorical figures of genius, architecture, painting, and compositions. The figures depicted against the background of the landscape and ancient monuments are full of elegiac feeling inherent in the painting of European pre -romantism. Here it works mainly in the genre of the portrait.

Turning to the type of ceremonial portrait, the artist depicts models in the interior or in the landscape with mandatory attributes of antiquity. Her self -portraits, full of elegant grace, are executed in a more chamber manner. Portraits of I. Winkelman, Zurich, Kunsthatle and I. Goethe, Weimar, Goethe Museum expressed a high spiritual mood of the art of the Enlightenment. Angelica Kaufman seems to be an international artist today.

Its elegant and secular style, which formed largely under the influence of English art, had a noticeable effect on Roman aristocratic circles of the late XVIII century. Its historical canvases are typical of international neoclassicism. The artist was famous in modern Russia, Oda "to Angelica Kaufman" belongs to Derzhavin. The works of Kaufman were replicated and thus popularized in Europe, graves of F.

Bartolozzi and G. Skorodumov in the dashed technique of the most suitable for the transmission of the nuances of the picturesque canvas. Engravings from the works of Kaufman served as a model for creating a sculpture. In particular, they were used by the sculptor F. Shubin, working on a series of medallions to decorate the marble hall of the marble palace in St. Petersburg.

Once Angelica was visited by a philanthropist, who acquired the paintings of artists for a high price, Count Horn. Angelica has already managed to succumb to the influence of glory, and this time the enthusiastic flattery of the count deeply penetrated her heart. A proposal followed, from which Angelica could not refuse. Once, the count secretly appeared to her and in despair told that he was suspected of a serious political crime.

Naturally, the salvation of the groom depended entirely on the decision of the bride. The fact is that Angelica was part of a close circle of the royal family. The crowned spouses dearly loved the artist and, therefore, would have changed the opinion of the count. The girl, not sophisticated in intrigues, not encountered with meanness, loved the count and believed him immediately.

Family life did not bring Angelica happiness. The count often did not spend the night at home, left the city and was distinguished by strange behavior. In the end, the girl moved to her father, and on February 10, a divorce took place. Disappointed in love, the artist closed herself in herself. In Rome, the artist met with Goethe, whose fan of the talent she was always.

The famous writer and Angelica for a long time were connected by warm friendly relations. But she never finished his portrait. Apparently, there was not enough skill to convey all the shades of the rich inner world of the brilliant poet. Angelika Kauffmann, Goethes Freundin in Rom. Ein Lebensbild Nach Ihren Briefen und nach berichten ihrer zeitgenossen. Boerner, Obermeier S. Angelica Kauffman.

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