Sunday, March 10, 2013

Ludwig Deutsch and his Egyptian paintings

The Austrian painter, Ludwig Deutsch, born in Vienna, lived 80 years, from 1855 to 1935. He is the descendent of a well-known Jewish Austrian family. His father was a financier. He studied arts primarily at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for three years. Then he moved to Paris, where he continued his practice and training at the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens. He was an orientalist painter, and had good relation with another Austrian Orientalist artist in Paris, named Rudolf Ernst. He visited Egypt for five times, between 1883 and 1904, when it was under British Occupation. It was a totally, different Egypt, but thanks to this magnificent painter, many scenes of the period had been immortalized and frozen in time.
The Egyptian paintings by Ludwig Deutsch were very carefully and beautifully drawn. They are full of details in full color and very accurate depiction of small as well as large real life items. You feel like it is a photo taken with a high definition camera, or as if you are seeing by your own eyes a still scene in real life.
Here is for instance one of his painting called: 'The Nubian Guard', created in 1892.



And another beautiful painting called: 'The Chess Game', created in 1896.


And this one called: 'The Sahleb Vendor', created in 1886.


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