Henry Fuseli RA ( / ˈfjuːzəli, fjuːˈzɛli / FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee; [1] [2] [3] German: Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741 - 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works depict supernatural experiences, such as The Nightmare. Henry Fuseli, (born February 7, 1741, Zürich, Switzerland—died April 16, 1825, Putney Hill, London, England), Swiss-born artist whose paintings are among the most dramatic, original, and sensual works of his time. Fuseli was reared in an intellectual and artistic milieu and initially studied theology.
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Henry Fuseli RA (German: Johann Heinrich Füssli; 7 February 1741 - 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as The Nightmare, deal with supernatural subject-matter. He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, and created his own "Milton Gallery". Henry Fuseli ( FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741 - 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works depict supernatural experiences, such as The Nightmare. 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. Füssli, Johann Heinrich Biography Works of Art Artist Bibliography Biography Fuseli was born in Zurich on 6 February 1741, the second son of the five children of Johann Caspar Füseli and Elisabeth Waser.
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Artwork Details Overview Catalogue Entry Provenance Exhibition History References Notes Title: The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches Artist: Henry Fuseli (Swiss, Zürich 1741-1825 London) Date: 1796 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 40 x 49 3/4 in. (101.6 x 126.4 cm) Classification: Paintings See all 39 artworks ›. Milton Dictating to His Daughter, 1794. Henry Fuseli. Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante's "Inferno" (front and back), 1770/78. Henry Fuseli. Sketch for "Oath on the Rütli," Female Figure (verso), 1779/81; 1785/90 (verso) Henry Fuseli. Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower, 1806. Johann Heinrich Fussli (Henry Fuseli) Two Figures, One Holding a Tablet or Book Unknown Royal Scottish Academy of Art. Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741 - 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works depict. Working during the height of the Enlightenment, the so-called "Age of Reason," the Swiss-English painter Henry Fuseli (born Johann Heinrich Füssli) instead chose to depict darker, irrational forces in his famous painting The Nightmare.. In Fuseli's startling composition, a woman bathed in white light stretches across a bed, her arms, neck, and head hanging off the end of the mattress.
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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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Werk 2.1 Der Maler 2.2 Der Schriftsteller 2.3 Der Herausgeber 3 Literatur 4 Filme 5 Weblinks 6 Einzelnachweise Leben The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman in deep sleep with her arms thrown below her, and with a demonic and ape-like incubus crouched on her chest. The painting's dreamlike and haunting erotic evocation of infatuation and obsession was a huge popular success.
Discover this automn the oeuvre of the Swiss-born British painter, Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825). Comprising sixty works from public and private collections, span through the most emblematic of works by Füssli, the artist of the imaginary and the sublime. From Shakespearean themes to representations of dreams, nightmares, and apparitions, and mythological and Biblical. Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) (1741-1825). Swiss-born painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, active mainly in England, where he was one of the outstanding figures of the Romantic movement.. He was the son of a portrait painter, Johann Caspar Füssli (1707-82), but he originally trained as a priest; he took holy orders in 1761, but never practised.
Il Caffé dell'Arte Johann Heinrich Füssli La Follia Di Kate 18061807
Fuseli greatly admired John Milton's poetry. Here, he was inspired by a short passage of Paradise Lost, where Milton alludes to glimpsing or dreaming of the midnight revels of fairies. A spiral of ethereal fairies swirl in the sky as a shepherd sleeps below. Fuseli hoped to capture the viewer's imagination with his magical subject. Johann Heinrich Füssli (in English Henry Fuseli) (1741-1825) was a British painter and writer on art, of German-Swiss family. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
