Adolf Friedrich Harper
Adolf Friedrich Harper | |
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| Born | October 17, 1725 |
| Died | June 23, 1806 (aged 80) Berlin |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Landscape painter |
Adolf Friedrich Harper (born 17 October 1725, Berlin — d. 23 June 1806, Berlin) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
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Harper was the son and student of the Swedish-born Prussian cabinet painter Johann Harper. After his father's death, Harper visited France and Italy, where he studied landscape painting under Richard Wilson. Harper first found employment in Württemberg in 1756. Three years later, he was made court painter to Duke Charles Eugene, who also made Harper the director of his Academy of Fine Arts at the Karlsschule in 1761. In 1798, Harper retired from court and spent his last years in his hometown, Berlin.[1]
Like Reinhard Heinrich Ferdinand Fischer and Nicolas Guibal, and other young artists sponsored by Charles Eugene, Harper had many commissions to fulfill and was constantly behind on them. Harper, whom Goethe called a "born landscape artist", was tasked with painting overdoors, studies of fruits and flowers, theater decorations, and frescoes with Guibal.[1]
Since the presidency of Christian Wulff, Harper's Italian Landscape has hung on the wall behind the desk of the President of Germany.[2]
See also
Citations
- ^ a b Wintterlin 1879, p. 617.
- ^ "Kunst im Arbeitszimmer des Bundespräsidenten" (in German). Märkische Oderzeitung. 18 March 2011. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
References
- Wintterlin, August (1879). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 10. Duncker & Humblot.
Further reading
- Berckenhagen, Ekhart (1996). "Harper, Adolf Friedrich". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 7. Duncker & Humblot. ISBN 3-428-00188-5.
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