Henry Fuseli
Swiss-born British Romantic Painter, 1741-1825 Henry Fuseli was the first artist to command the epic literature and heroic history of northern Europe as well as the Mediterranean countries, and by his wide reading and close study of the Old Masters he equipped himself to extend the scope of history painting far beyond the traditional limits of the Bible and classical antiquity. In his speculative boldness he was a child of the Enlightenment, but he was also a fierce critic of sterile rationalism and preached the gospel of the imagination with religious fervor. Henry Fuseli was born Johann Heinrich F??ssli (in 1764 he Anglicized his name) in Zurich on Feb. 6, 1741, the son of a painter with strong religious convictions who destined him for the Zwinglian ministry. After a period of intensive theological study Fuseli was ordained in 1761 and preached his first sermon. He was a friend of Johann Kaspar Lavater, whose Aphorisms on Man he later translated into English from manuscript. Fuseli became the favorite disciple of Johann Jakob Bodmer, who in 1740 had published an essay on the wonderful in poetry that led to a literary war with Johann Christoph Gottsched in Germany and the formation of a revolutionary Swiss school which used English literature, especially Milton and Shakespeare, as a spearhead in promoting romanticism.
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Henry Fuseli Nachtmahr, Detail oil painting


Nachtmahr, Detail
1802 Oil on canvas cjr
Painting ID::  74864 		Henry Fuseli
Nachtmahr, Detail
1802 Oil on canvas cjr
   
   
     
Henry Fuseli Die drei Eidgenossen beim Schwur auf den Rutli oil painting


Die drei Eidgenossen beim Schwur auf den Rutli
1780(1780) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 267 x 178 cm cjr
Painting ID::  91206 		Henry Fuseli
Die drei Eidgenossen beim Schwur auf den Rutli
1780(1780) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 267 x 178 cm cjr
   
   
     
Henry Fuseli Sophia Rawlins, the artist's wife oil painting


Sophia Rawlins, the artist's wife
oil on canvas 60 x 49.5 Date 18th century cjr
Painting ID::  94429 		Henry Fuseli
Sophia Rawlins, the artist's wife
oil on canvas 60 x 49.5 Date 18th century cjr
   
   
     
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     Swiss-born British Romantic Painter, 1741-1825 Henry Fuseli was the first artist to command the epic literature and heroic history of northern Europe as well as the Mediterranean countries, and by his wide reading and close study of the Old Masters he equipped himself to extend the scope of history painting far beyond the traditional limits of the Bible and classical antiquity. In his speculative boldness he was a child of the Enlightenment, but he was also a fierce critic of sterile rationalism and preached the gospel of the imagination with religious fervor. Henry Fuseli was born Johann Heinrich F??ssli (in 1764 he Anglicized his name) in Zurich on Feb. 6, 1741, the son of a painter with strong religious convictions who destined him for the Zwinglian ministry. After a period of intensive theological study Fuseli was ordained in 1761 and preached his first sermon. He was a friend of Johann Kaspar Lavater, whose Aphorisms on Man he later translated into English from manuscript. Fuseli became the favorite disciple of Johann Jakob Bodmer, who in 1740 had published an essay on the wonderful in poetry that led to a literary war with Johann Christoph Gottsched in Germany and the formation of a revolutionary Swiss school which used English literature, especially Milton and Shakespeare, as a spearhead in promoting romanticism.

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