Adam Elsheimer 1578 - 1610

Rüdiger Klessmann; Emilie E.S. Gordenker and Christian Tico Seifert

ISBN 10: 1903470471 / ISBN 13: 9781903470473

Published by Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2006

About this Item

245 pp., 240 illustrations 130 in full color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Stadtische Galerie, Frankfurt 17 March-5 June 2006, The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh 23 June-3 September 2006 and Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 20 September-3 December 2006.

Seller Inventory # 005663

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adam Elsheimer 1578 - 1610
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903470471
• ISBN 13: 9781903470473
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Painting
  • Art: Monographs

About this title

Synopsis

Adam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But, rather like Giorgione, who had died young in Venice 100 years earlier, Elsheimer was influential on the coming century to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small oeuvre. He developed a wonderful mastery of light, a dramatic chiaroscuro that gave new depth to his subject-matter, and a rather less definable poetic feeling that gives a very special savor to all his painting. “What is remarkable about this volume is the number of quality reproductions of the artist's work that can be seen together for the first time. This collection of paintings demonstrates more comprehensively than ever before Elsheimer's extraordinary intuition for light and atmosphere” (Antiques Magazine).

About the Author

Michael Maek-Gérard is a curator at the Städelsches Institute in Fruankfurt. Other contributors include Emily Gordenker, Rüdiger Klessmann, and Christian Tico Seifert.