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See also:JOSEPH VON See also:FUHRICH (1800-1876)
, See also:Austrian painter, was See also:born at Kratzau in Bohemia on the 9th of See also:February r800
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Deeply impressed as a boy by See also:rude pictures adorning the wayside chapels of his native See also:country, his first See also:attempt at See also:composition was a See also:sketch of the Nativity for the festival of See also:Christmas in his See also:father's See also:house
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He lived to see the See also:day when, becoming celebrated as a composer of scriptural episodes, his sacred subjects were transferred in numberless repetitions to the roadside churches of the Austrian See also:state, where humble peasants thus learnt to admire See also:modern See also:art reviving the See also:models of earlier ages
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See also:Fuhrich has been fairly described as a " Nazarene," a romantic religious artist whose, See also:pencil did more than any other to restore the old spirit of See also:Durer and give new shape to countless incidents of the See also:gospel and scriptural legends
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Without the See also:power of See also:Cornelius or the See also:grace of See also:Overbeck, he composed with See also:great skill, especially in outline
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His mastery of See also:distribution, See also:form, See also:movement and expression was considerable
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In its See also:peculiar way his drapery was perfectly See also:cast
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Essentially creative as a landscape draughtsman, he had still no feeling for See also:colour; and when he produced monumental pictures he was not nearly so successful as when designing subjects for woodcuts
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Fuhrich's fame extended far beyond the walls of the Austrian See also:capital, and his illustrations to See also:Tieck's Genofeva, the See also:Lord's See also:Prayer, the See also:Triumph of See also:Christ, the Road to See also:Bethlehem, the See also:Succession of Christ according to See also:
In 1826 he went to See also:Rome, where he added three frescoes to those executed by Cornelius and Overbeck in the Palazzo Massimi
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His subjects were taken from the See also:life of See also:Tasso, and are almost solitary examples of his See also:talent in this class of composition
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In 1831 he finished the Triumph of Christ now in the Raczynski See also:palace at See also:Berlin
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In 1834 he was made custos and in 1841 See also:professor of composition in the Academy of See also:Vienna
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After this he completed the monumental pictures of the See also: |
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