Anselm Feuerbach

(1829–1880) tysk målare

Anselm Feuerbach (1829–1880) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Anselm Feuerbach belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Anselm Feuerbach was born in Speyer and died in Venice. Anselm Feuerbach trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Anselm Feuerbach worked in Paris and Rome. Wikidata associates Anselm Feuerbach with Neoclassicism. The students included Rudolf Ernst, Jean Discart, Epaminonda Bucevschi, and Leopold Bara.

The best-known works include ‘Battle of the Amazons’, ‘Girl with Dead Bird’, and ‘The Storyteller at the Well’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 76 works by Anselm Feuerbach with free images. The dated works span the years 1840–1900. Works by Anselm Feuerbach are held by several collections, among them Alte Nationalgalerie, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Erik Bodom, Ferdinand Laufberger, Wilhelm Lindenschmit den yngre, John Everett Millais, and Achille Emperaire.

• Realism
• Battle of the Amazons
• Medea
• Plato's Symposium