William Turner Light and Farbe

Title: William Turner Light and Farbe

Author: Költzsch, GW

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9783906574141

Condition: Good

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Description:
Turner travelled extensively in Europe. From 1793 onwards Great Britain was cut off from the continent by the war with France and so it was fashionable in the 1890s to travel through Britain itself. Turner travelled around South Wales in 1795 and the North of England in 1797. In 1798 and 1799 he travelled through North Wales. In 1799 he was elected an 'associate' of the Royal Academy and he now moved to 64 Harley Street. He opened a gallery next door, in Queen Anne Street, in 1804, where he exhibited his own work. In 1802 he was elected an 'academician'. He began his travels in France and Switzerland in 1802, after the short Peace of Amiens (March 1802-May 1803) and in the same year visited the Louvre in Paris and the studio of Jacques-Louis David. During his foreign travels he was impressed by the landscape in the Alps, but he also saw the work of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. Even in 1812 he painted a work Hannibal Crossing the Alps. Later Turner visited Venice several times, where he was impressed by the work of Titian and Veronese. In 1807 the first of a series of books by Turner appeared, Liber studiorum, illustrated with his own work, in which he presented his vision of the landscape in literary form. In the same year he became professor of perspective at the Royal Academy. Walter Fawkes became an important patron of Turner. From 1808 to 1825 Turner spent almost every year a month with his family in Yorkshire.