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"Moonlight, Study," Fanny Churberg, 1878.

Churberg (1845-92) was a Finnish landscape painter.

The daughter of a doctor and fiercely proud of her Finnish heritage, she began artistic training in 1865 after the deaths of both her parents, and moving in with an aunt, along with her brothers. She was an industrious painter, doing 300 canvases in a 15-year career.

While her style was strictly in the Dusseldorf School (an extension of the Romantic movement, with a focus on meticulously detailed landscapes, often with religious or moral allegory), she did differ from them a slight bit with her short brushstrokes and energetic style. She was passionate about the Finnish landscape and sought to translate such events as an approaching thunderstorm, or moonlight on a cloudy night, as accurately as possible.

She stopped painting in 1880; some say it was her own declining health and the death of her brother Torsten from TB. Others say it was harsh reviews of her work. But she remained involved in the artistic world, encouraging other painters, until her death at 46,

She has been rediscovered in the last 20 years and now is valued for her passionate depictions of turbulent nature.

From the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.

#Art #FannyChurberg #DusseldorfSchool #Landscape #WOmenArtists #WomensHistory #Romanticism

On this day (136 years ago), death of Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890).

Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00337

#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.

Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00369

#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.

Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00369

#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.

Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00369

#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.

Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00369

#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.

Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00369

#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

"The Petitioner," Osman Hamdi Bey, 19th Century.

Osman Hamdi (1842-1910) was quite a fellow; a museum curator, art expert, archaeologist, writer, and all-around intellectual as well as being an influential painter.

Son of a high-ranking official in the Ottoman Empire, he studied art and art history in Paris, before returning to the Ottoman Empire and serving in various official capacities before being named the director of the Imperial Museum. There he worked to modernize archaeology and prevent the smuggling of artifacts out of the country. And all the time, kept on painting.

His work seems to copy the "orientalism" of European artists, which generates controversy today, as some view it as racist. But his work depicts Ottoman culture and tends to show his subjects (often modeled by family members) in active and intellectual roles. He's now seen as subverting Orientalism for his own purposes.

From the Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul.

#Art #OsmanHamdiBey #OttomanArt #Orientalism #Romanticism

Top ten posts in September 2025

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Excellent paper by Paris Weber to conclude a fabulous #NASSR2025 on Thomas Gray's representation of nature as integral to the perception of time's flow and human memory in his #EtonOde and #Elegy, drawing a connection from Burnet to Hardy.

#18thC #Romanticism #ThomasGrayArchive #poetry

Song of songs, 1853 #moreau #romanticism https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/song-of-songs-1853

Time to introduce myself since there are now some others in this breakout room !
I was not long on the other app, but while I was there appreciated the remedy to pandemic loneliness it offered. The interests I hope to share with others here include: #bookhistory, #18thcentury, #romanticism, #novels, #victorian poetry (new obsession), #scrapbooks, #pedagogy , #Clarissa, #TristramShandy.