Louis Gurlitt Voer een
gevoel, niet
een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Louis Gurlitt
Louis Gurlitt: A Life in Landscape Early Life and Education Born: Heinrich Louis Theodor Gurlitt on March 8, 1812, in Altona, Holstein (present-day Germany). Gurlitt came from a family with artistic inclinations; his brother, Cornelius Gurlitt, was a composer, and his son would become an architect and art historian. Altona’s unique status as a Danish town with religious freedoms provided a relatively liberal environment for his
upbringing. He received his initial artistic training in Hamburg under Siegfried Detlev Bendixen. In 1832, Gurlitt moved to Copenhagen, where he studied and won a silver medal in 1833. He exhibited regularly there until around 1875. Artistic Development and Style Gurlitt’s early work demonstrated considerable talent, earning praise from the Danish Academy. He primarily focused on landscape painting, developing a style charac…