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1667 Regensburg, Germany - 1719 Regensburg, Germany. Known for: Atmospheric landscape and bird painting.
CHRISTOPH LUDWIG AGRICOLA (REGENSBURG , 1667 - REGENSBURG , 1719). Relatively little is known of the artistic training and career of the late 17th century German painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola,... Read full biography
CHRISTOPH LUDWIG AGRICOLA (REGENSBURG , 1667 - REGENSBURG , 1719). Relatively little is known of the artistic training and career of the late 17th century German painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola, who developed a form of atmospheric landscape painting that has been described as embodying ‘an early... Read full biography
CHRISTOPH LUDWIG AGRICOLA (REGENSBURG , 1667 - REGENSBURG , 1719). Relatively little is known of the artistic training and career of the late 17th century German painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola, who developed a form of atmospheric landscape painting that has been described as embodying ‘an early expression of Baroque Romanticism in German painting.’ He seems to have been largely self-taught, and his work was strongly influenced by the landscape paintings of the French artists Claude Lorraine,... Read full biography
CHRISTOPH LUDWIG AGRICOLA (REGENSBURG , 1667 - REGENSBURG , 1719). Relatively little is known of the artistic training and career of the late 17th century German painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola, who developed a form of atmospheric landscape painting that has been described as embodying ‘an early expression of Baroque Romanticism in German painting.’ He seems to have been largely self-taught, and his work was strongly influenced by the landscape paintings of the French artists Claude Lorraine, Gaspard Dughet and Nicolas Poussin. The compositions of his easel pictures favoured landscapes with unusual light effects, such as twilight or nighttime scenes, or the darkness of the sky before a storm. Agricola was active mainly in Augsburg, and... Read full biography
CHRISTOPH LUDWIG AGRICOLA (REGENSBURG , 1667 - REGENSBURG , 1719). Relatively little is known of the artistic training and career of the late 17th century German painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola, who developed a form of atmospheric landscape painting that has been described as embodying ‘an early expression of Baroque Romanticism in German painting.’ He seems to have been largely self-taught, and his work was strongly influenced by the landscape paintings of the French artists Claude Lorraine, Gaspard Dughet and Nicolas Poussin. The compositions of his easel pictures favoured landscapes with unusual light effects, such as twilight or nighttime scenes, or the darkness of the sky before a storm. Agricola was active mainly in Augsburg, and also spent time in England, Holland, France and Italy, particularly in Rome and Naples, where he lived for some time. Around 1712 he worke... Read full biography
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CHRISTOPH LUDWIG AGRICOLA (REGENSBURG , 1667 - REGENSBURG , 1719)
Relatively little is known of the artistic training and career of the late 17th century German painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola, who developed a form of atmospheric landscape painting that has been described as embodying ‘an early expression of Baroque Romanticism in German painting.’ He seems to have been largely self-taught, and his work was strongly influenced by the landscape paintings of the French artists Claude Lorraine, Gaspard Dughet and Nicolas Poussin.
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