Gerson Rembrandt: Paintings

Fromentin, Eugene: The Masters Of Past Time. Dutch And Flemish Painting From Van Eyck To Rembrandt. Eingeleitet und herausgegeben von H. Gerson. Mit einem Vorwort des Verfassers. Mit einer Auswahlbibliographie. Mit einem Register. London, Phaidon Press, 1948 (MCMXLVIII).
Guter Zustand. Aus dem Besitz der Gräfin Ledebur mit geprägtem Monogramm (Krone) auf dem Vorsatz. - Eugene Fromentin (October 24, 1820 - August 27, 1876) was a French painter and writer.[1]. He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. In 1849 he obtained a medal of the second class. In 1852 he paid a second visit to Algeria, accompanying an archaeological mission, and then completed that minute study of the scenery of the country and of the habits of its people which enabled him to give to his after-work the realistic accuracy that comes from intimate knowledge. In a certain sense his works are contributions to ethnological science as much as they are works of art. Fromentin, who maintained that "art is the expression of the invisible by means of the visible", was much influenced in style by Eugene Delacroix. His works are distinguished by striking composition, great dexterity of handling and brilliancy of colour. In them is given with great truth and refinement the unconscious grandeur of barbarian and animal attitudes and gestures. His later works, however, show signs of an exhausted vein and of an exhausted spirit, accompanied or caused by physical enfeeblement. But it must be observed that Fromentin's paintings show only one side of a genius that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature, though with less profusion. Dominique, first published in the Revue des deux mondes in 1862, and dedicated to George Sand, is remarkable among the fiction of the century for delicate and imaginative observation and for emotional earnestness. Fromentin's other literary works are Visites artistiques (1852); Simples Pelerinages (1856); Un ete dans le Sahara (1857); Une annee dans le Sahel (1858); and Les Maitres d'autrefois (1876), the last an influential appreciation of Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Baroque to Rembrandt . In 1876 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Academy. He died suddenly at La Rochelle on August 27, 1876. Aus: en-wikipedia-org-Eug%C3%A8ne_Fromentin

Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. xvi, 389 Seiten mit 102 schwarzweiß Abbildungen. Dünndruckausgabe. A good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, part of the publisher's ''Masters of Past Time'' series. This one deals with Dutch and Flemish paintings from between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. 389pp, 102 b&w illustrations of the paintings. Good Hard Cover 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 19 cm. Grünes Leinen mit goldgeprägten Rücken- und Deckeltiteln, goldgeprägten floralen Rückenverzierungen und Schutzumschlag.

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Rembrandt Horst Gerson: Rembrandt Paintings - Harrison House Publishers New York 1968 ISBN: 97805172

527 S. zahlr. farb. u. sw. Abb., teilw. ganzzeitig Gr.Fol. gebunden, Ln. das Buch ist in sehr gutem Zustand,Umschlag etwas berieben

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Gerson, Horst. REMBRANDT PAINTINGS. NY: REYNAL, 1968.
vg+/vg-; first edition folio. With 80 full-color plates and over 650 black and white reproductions. 527 pages..

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Gerson, Horst: Rembrandt Paintings Translated by Heinz Norden, New York, Reynal & Company, Amsterdam, Meulenhoff International, 1968.
Many years in preparation, Rembrandt paintings is a definitive presentation of the master's work. Horst Gerson, one of the world's foremost authorities on Rembrandt, combines impeccable scholarship with a lucid style. His text examines the artis and his world and offers the reader a new image - in many ways a startling one - of Rembrandt's life and art. The central theme of Rembrandt Paintings is a historical - and human - problem of fascination: How is a surpassing genius like Rembrandt related to the other artists of his day and the world around him? What did he leran from his teachers, and what did he pass on to his pupils? How did he behave toward his competitors in the art world of his time, and what did he think of their work? Was the course of Rembrandt's career in art influenced by his tragic life?

527 S., davon 80 farbig und über 650 schwarz-weiß Reproduktionen Gr.-Fol., Leinen mit Schutzumschlag

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