Ferdinand von Rayski
Louis Ferdinand of Rayski ( born October 23, 1806 Pegau, † October 23, 1890 in Dresden ) was a German artist and portrait painter of the 19th century. He is considered a forerunner of the impressionist style in Germany.
Life
The painter of the Saxon and Frankish nobility of the 19th century, Ferdinand of Rayski, was a portrait painter and draftsman. Rayski went first at the Dresden Masonic Institute for School and studied at the Art Academy in Dresden after. He created especially portrait paintings, many of which are located in the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden Albertinum. His painted narratives of the Napoleonic war train in Russia, where his father perished in the cold winter of 1812 as a Saxon officer, can be seen today in the Castle Nossen. After his death almost forgotten Rayski was rediscovered by connoisseurs of its nearly 700 works only after the turn of the century in 1900 for the art world and then described in several art books. Even today are privately owned well-known portraits. The Presidium of the Dresden Gallery recently acquired a large format image of his cousin Friedrich von Boxberg. Indeed, in Zschorna ( district Meißen) several times the portraitist Ferdinand of Rayski as a guest, which temporarily worked here, in 1861, created this image, which as a hunter and in the background shows the host the Zschornaer castle.
Rayski formed, apart from a brief visit to the Dresden Art Academy, self-taught. Even unmarried, were children his outspoken favorites. The image of his five- year-old niece Adelheid von Boxberg is located in Goerlitz Cultural History Museum. Especially the portrait of the young eleven year old Haubold von Einsiedel from Lusatia, in a sitting posture self-conscious boys, already reached in 1906 in the possession of the National Gallery in Berlin and is in various publications to the painting of the 19th century. to find.
In addition to large-format portraits of his Saxon and Frankish authority, often in uniform or hunting clothes, it had done to him after his brief military career unloved, horses and hunting scenes. It seemed more to movement than on the detail. Society ladies in magnificent clothes, but also peasant types he held. The hunting pictures often included large and small dogs. Not to forget his rabbit motifs. Ferdinand of Rayski had wit. A Traditional portrait represents the " Three brats " dar. With great tassel he was painting in Großwelka " Napoleon from behind " on a plastered garden wall. Like his " wild boar " from the Dresden Gallery are burned or lost many of his works.
On his 84th birthday Rayski dies in Dresden. His grave is located on the famous Trinity Cemetery and his Rayskistraße was named in honor of Dresden.
Works
- Portrait of Friedrich von Boxberg
- Max von Fabrice - 1860 - Wallraf -Richartz- Museum
- Battle of Borodino and Grenadiers in the snow on behalf of Meissner noble family Schoenberg
- Portrait of the chamberlain Julius Graf Zech Burkersroda, Albertinum, Dresden
- Conrad of posers, 1851, Chemnitz Art Collections
- Portrait of the Mother, Museum in the cultural memory of Würzburg
- Hunting break in Wermsdorfer forest ( about 1859 ), this was Georg Baselitz in 1969 as a motive for his first picture on the head ( subject reversal)