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Morgenstern, Christian

Morgenstern, Christian View Across Lake Starnberg to the Benediktenwand oil painting on canvas
View Across Lake Starnberg to the Benediktenwand
Painting ID::  19549
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Morgenstern, Christian View Across Lake Starnberg to the Benediktenwand oil painting on canvas



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  Morgenstern, Christian
  German, 1805-1867 German painter. After training from 1824 with Siegfried Bendixen (1786-1864) in Hamburg, he studied at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen in 1827 and made sketching trips to Sweden and Norway. He then settled permanently in Munich. He was influenced in particular by 17th-century Dutch painters, notably Jacob van Ruisdael, the Copenhagen plein-air painters, the emerging Norwegian landscape school and the early Realist painters working in Munich, such as Johann Georg von Dillis. Morgenstern explored objective, pure landscape painting with intimate motifs in such works as Beech-tree Trunks in Fredericksdal near Copenhagen (1828; Hamburg, Ksthalle). He also painted scenes combining closely rendered foreground details with extensive,
  View Across Lake Starnberg to the Benediktenwand
  1844 Oil on paper Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur.

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