Christoph Ludwig Agricola

Christoph Ludwig Agricola ( born November 5, 1665 in Regensburg, † August 8, 1724 ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

Agricola spent much of his life traveling, he visited England, the Netherlands and France and was also a long time in Naples.

His numerous landscape paintings give remarkably accurate nature again, the representation of the different seasons he dominated excellent. His motive design shows influences of Nicolas Poussin, the accuracy of light and color choice is to already be found in similar form in Claude Lorrain. Most of his works were written in the so-called cabinet format, a small picture format, how it used at that time in cabinets.

His paintings are preserved mainly in German, formerly princely art galleries, including in Braunschweig, Dessau, Dresden, Kassel, Schwerin, however, are also in Breslau, Prague, Copenhagen, Venice, Florence and Naples to find.

His portrait, created in 1709 by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera, is now lost; it was reproduced in a mezzotint 1711 by the Augsburg engraver Bernhard Vogel ( 1683-1737 ).

Works (selection)

• Self- portrait with brush and palette ( in the Brunswick Museum )
• Portrait of his brother ( scraped by Bernhard Vogel )
• Diana and Actaeon ( etching)
• Satyr with nymph on the couch ( etching)
• Landscape with a River and cottages ( etching)