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EDUARD HILDEBRANDT (1818-1868) , See also: German painter, was See also: born in 1818, and served as apprentice to his See also: father, a See also: house-painter at See also: Danzig
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He was not twenty when he came to Berlin, where he was taken in See also: hand by Wilhelm Krause, a painter of See also: sea pieces
.
Several early pieces exhibited after his death—a See also: breakwater, dated 1838, See also: ships in a See also: breeze off See also: Swinemunde (184o), and other canvases of this and the following year—show Hildebrandt to have been a careful student of nature, with inborn talents kept down by the See also: con-.'entionalisms of the formal school to which Krause belonged
.
Accident made him acquainted with masterpieces of French See also: art displayed at the Berlin See also: Academy, and these awakened his curiosity and envy
.
He went to See also: Paris, where, about 1842, he entered the atelier of See also: Isabey and became the companion of Lepoittevin
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In a See also: short See also: time he sent home pictures which might have been taken for copies from these artists
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Gradually he mastered the mysteries of touch and the secrets of effect in which the French at this See also: period excelled
.
He also acquired the necessary skill in See also: painting figures, and returned to See also: Germany, skilled in the rendering of many kinds of landscape forms
.
His pictures of French street See also: life, done about 1843, while impressed with the stamp of the
Paris school, reveal a spirit eager for novelty, See also: quick at grasping, equally quick at rendering, momentary changes of See also: tone and atmosphere
.
After 1843 Hildebrandt, under the influence of Humboldt, extended his travels, and in 1864–1865 he went round the See also: world
.
Whilst his experience became enlarged his See also: powers of concentration broke down
.
He lost the taste for detail in seeking for scenic breadth, and a fatal facility of hand diminished the value of his See also: works for all those who look for composition and harmony of See also: hue as necessary concomitants of tone and touch
.
In oil he gradually produced less, in See also: water See also: colours more, than at first, and his fame must rest on the sketches which he made in the latter See also: form, many of them represented by chromo-lithography
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Fantasies in red, yellow and See also: opal, sunset, sunrise and moonshine, distances of hundreds of See also: miles like those of the See also: Andes and the See also: Himalaya, narrow streets in the bazaars of Cairo or See also: Suez, panoramas as seen from mastheads, wide cities like Bombay or See also: Pekin, narrow strips of See also: desert with measure-less expanses of sky—all alike display his quality of bravura
.
Hildebrandt died at Berlin on the 25th of See also: October 1868
.
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