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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. Johann Heinrich Füssli war ein Sohn des Malers und Schriftstellers Johann Caspar Füssli (1707–1782) und dessen Ehefrau Elisabeth Waser. Seine Schwestern Elisabeth und Anna ...
- April 17, 1825
- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- The Legacy of Henry Fuseli
Johann Heinrich Füssli (known as Henry Fuseli) was born in Zürich on February 7th, 1741. He was the second of 18 children born to the Swiss portrait painter, Johann Caspar Füssli and his wife, Anna Elisabeth Waser. Caspar was a collector of sixteenth and seventeenth century Swiss art and passed his appreciation of fine art onto his son. Indeed, Fus...
Fuseli was ordained as a priest in 1761. However, he was forced to leave Switzerland soon thereafter for helping Lavater expose a corrupt and vengeful magistrate. He crossed the border into Germany where he fell under the influence of the German Enlightenment, a philosophical movement which dominated European thought during the eighteenth century. ...
By 1773 Fuseli was already making a name for himself in Rome with a strong connection to the German proto-Romantic Sturm und Drang movement. Sturm und Drang lasted from the late 1760s to the early 1780s and championed the freedom of subjective expression over the rationalism that had helped define the new era of Enlightenment. Goethe, a protagonist...
John Boydell, the eminent engraver and publisher of the period, commissioned a number of important artists, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, to illustrate scenes from Shakespeare with the goal of producing an illustrated companion for his plays. Fuseli, who had fallen in love with the London Theatre, and especially the plays of Shakespeare, contribut...
A successful artist in his own lifetime, the foundations of his legacy were put in place when his style was parodied by eminent satirists of the day including Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray. Fuseli directly influenced a number of younger artists including William Blake, Theodor von Holst, the Pre-Raphaelite, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and, through...
- February 7, 1741
- April 16, 1825
6. Sept. 2019 · Mit den Dichtungen Homers, Dantes, Shakespeares und Miltons vertraut und empfänglich für alles Phantastische, wurde Füssli als Maler und Illustrator literarischer Stoffe bekannt. Alle Werke 1 Werk
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.
Johann Heinrich Füssli. Maler, Historienmaler, Zeichner, Illustrator, Schriftsteller, Kunstschriftsteller und Kunsttheoretiker. Geboren. 1741 in Zürich. Gestorben. 1825 in Putney Hill.
26. Dez. 2023 · Henry Füssli erkundete die tiefste Seite der menschlichen Psyche und stellte Träume, Albträume und Visionen auf eindrucksvolle Weise dar. Fesselnde visuelle Erzählungen: Jedes seiner Werke erzählte eine bildgewaltige Geschichte.
'A 'poetic painter', Henry Fuseli focused on the power of dramatic expression and the sublime poetics conveyed in classical texts by Ovid, Homer and Pythian.'
