Franz xavier winterhalter biography

Franz Xavier Winterhalter

"He is the greatest portrait painters of the 19th century" -- Queen Victoria

 1805-1873

German Academic Classicists Painter

Stylistically influenced by the following painters -  Paul Delaroche, and Thomas Couture

Cause of Death - Heart Failure

Description Franz Xavier Winterhalter's Academic Classicism Painting style

Followers of this movement were influenced by the high standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements ofNeoclassicism and Romanticism.  Academic Classicism attempted to merge both techniques to create the perfect style.

Franz xavier winterhalter biography

It is characterized by adhering to a strict manner of painting, following narrow compositional rules and delicacy of color. The atmospheric effects are sumptuously luminescent. According to art historian, Walter Pater "To produce such effects at all requires all the resources of painting, with its power of indirect expression, of subordinate bu