August Riedel

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich August Riedel ( born December 25, 1799 in Bayreuth, † August 6, 1883 in Rome ) was a German painter.

The son of the architect Karl Christian Riedel was formed in 1820 at the Munich Academy under both long and expressed in his earliest works, a unusual coloristic talent he nor increased greatly in Italy, where he lived in 1828, at a time where hardly put any German artist on the color effect in terms of a fine color gradation value. Over the years, Riedel was, however, overtaken by modern realism, but this can not detract from its original merit. Of his numerous, always conscientiously formed and characteristic effects by sunlight paintings are the best known:

• Italian with Tambourine
• Neapolitan fisherman's family at the seashore ( New Pinakothek in Munich)
• Judith (ibid. itself)
• Girls from around Naples (ibid. itself)
• Sakuntala
• Medea
• Albanians ( Berlin National Gallery )
• Bathing girls (ibid. itself); this was one of his major works, which he had to repeat several times. He was until his death a professor at the Academy of San Luca in Rome.

Works

(Selection)

Judith, 1840

Felice Berardi from Albano, 1842

Girls Bathing, 1845