On the Seashore (Modern Iphigenia) – (Anselm Friedrich Feuerbach) Previous Next


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Date: 1875

Size: 1355 x 1970 cm

Museum: Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf, Germany)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Feuerbach, who was regarded as a member of the socalled ‘Deutsch-Römer’ (a circle of German artists in Rome), lived for many years in Rome and in Venice. He pursued the goal of merging Classical Greek and realist models to create an ideal form. For two decades, the son of an archaeologist concerned himself with the theme of Iphigenia, the king’s daughter who was saved from death by sacrifice and henceforth had to live in exile. Inspired by Goethe’s play

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