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Biedermeier nebo romantismus? Stylový a ideový pluralismus v rané tvorbě Petera Fendiho ze sbírek zámku v Rájci nad Svitavou
| Title in English | Biedermeier or Romanticism? Style and Ideological Pluralism at the early Stage of Work of Peter Fendi |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | In the collections of Rájec nad Svitavou castle is preserved a set of Peter Fendi’s (1796?–?1842) early paint works as part of a larger acquisitions of paintings on historical or literary themes of the artists of early historicism and romanticism (Karl Russ, Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Joseph von Führich). Historian, publicist and politician Joseph von Hornmayr zu Hortenburg (1781–1848) initiated its establishing in approximately 1820. He also proposed the subject of the majority of the images and he commissioned their realization at ateliers of befriended artists for family of Rajec manor house landlord Hugo I. Franz Altgrave of Salm-Reifferscheidt (1776–1836). Peter Fendi’s images at the Rajec picture gallery show different bases of the artist’s early production, from the period when he was only exploring his authentic artistic expression and he responded to different stylistic and ideological resources. Albeit Fendi utilised in his early works some formal procedures of romantic painting, he has never been an authentic romantic painter and all his work tended to the Biedermeier art with its interest in genre scenes and social issues. |
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