Albert Keller
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Life and work
He was born at GaisGais
Gais is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. The area of Gais is .In 1977 Gais received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage...
, in Switzerland
Switzerland
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; he studied at the Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
Academy under Lenbach and Ramberg, and must be counted among the leading colorists of the modern German school. Travels in Italy
Italy
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, France, England and Holland, and a prolonged sojourn in Paris
Paris
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, helped to develop his style. His scenes of society life, such as the famous "Dinner" (1890), are painted with thoroughly Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
ian esprit, and his portraits are marked by the same elegant distinction. He was particularly successful in the rendering of rustling silk and satin dresses and draperies. His historical and imaginative works were as modern in spirit and as unacademical as his portraits. As of 1911, at the Munich Pinakothek was his painting "Jairi Töchterlein" (1886), while the Königsberg
Königsberg
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Museum contained his "Roman Bath", and the Liebieg collection in Reichenberg
Liberec
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the "Audience with Louis XV", the first picture that drew attention to his talent. Among other important works he painted "Faustina in the Temple of Juno at Praeneste", "The Witches Sleep" (1888), "The Judgment of Paris", "The Happy Sister", "Temptation" (1892), "Autumn" (1893), "An Adventure" (1896), and "The Crucifixion".
See also
- Albert von Schrenck-NotzingAlbert von Schrenck-NotzingAlbert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing was a German physician, psychiatrist and notable psychic researcher, who devoted his time to the study of paranormal events connected with mediumship, hypnotism and telepathy...
(1862–1929), German psychiatrist and parapsychologist with whom the artist was closely associated. Keller was strongly interested in the paranormalParanormalParanormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
and took part in séances and parapsychological experiments.
Further reading
- Jo-Anne Birnie Danzke. Seance: Albert Von Keller and the Occult (Frye Art Museum, 2010).
External links
- Séance: Albert von Keller and the Occult (Frye Art Museum)