Eugene de Blaas
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Academic art
Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism,...
. He was born at Albano
Albano Laziale
Albano Laziale is a comune in the province of Rome, on the Alban Hills, in Latium, central Italy. It is also a suburb of Rome, which is 25 km distant. It is bounded by other communes of Castel Gandolfo, Rocca di Papa, Ariccia and Ardea. Located in the Castelli Romani area of Lazio...
, near Rome
Rome
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, to Austria
Austria
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n parents. His father Karl
Karl von Blaas
Karl von Blaas was the eldest representative of a family of distinguished Austrian painters. He was born at Nauders and studied at the Academy of Venice. In 1837 he received the Roman prize of the Academy of Venice...
, a Jew and also a painter, was his teacher. The family moved to Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
when Karl became Professor at the Academy in Venice. He often painted scenes in Venice. He became professor in the Academy of Venice.
His colorful and rather theatrical period images of Venetian society, e.g. On the Balcony (1877; Private Collection), were quite different compared to delicate pastels and etchings of the courtyards, balcony and canals of modern Venice.
Eugene de Blaas' paintings are collected at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, New Gallery and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery in London, and also at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Paintings
- The Sisters 1878 (Cloister-Scene)
- Conversions of the Rhætians by St. Valentine
- Cimabue and Giotto
- Scene from the DecameronThe DecameronThe Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people....
- Dogaressa Going to Church
- Venetian Balcony Scene
- God's Creatures
- Bridal Procession, in San MarcoSan MarcoSan Marco is one of the six sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore...
- Venetian Masquerade
- A Journey to MuranoMuranoMurano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about 1.5 km north of Venice and measures about across with a population of just over 5,000 . It is famous for its glass making, particularly lampworking...
(Vienna Museum) - Eugen Von Die Wassertragerin (1908)
- In the WaterIn the Water (Blaas)In the Water is an oil on cradled panel painting of a skinny dipping young woman by Eugene de Blaas. It is his only nude, as all his other subjects are fully clothed. It is 78.4 cm. high and 44.5 cm. tall.-Description:...
(1914)
Cultural Reference
- Salim Ghazi Saeedi has dedicated a song entitled "For Eugene, Distilling the Delicacy" to Eugene de Blaas in his 2011 album, Human Encounter.