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EDUARD HILDEBRANDT (1818-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 461 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . He was not twenty when he came to See also:Berlin, where he was taken in See also:hand by Wilhelm See also:Krause, a painter of See also:sea pieces . Several See also:early pieces exhibited after his See also: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 See also:year—show See also: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 . See also:Accident made him acquainted with masterpieces of See also: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 See also:companion of Lepoittevin . In a See also:short See also:time he sent See also:home pictures which might have been taken for copies from these artists . Gradually he mastered the mysteries of See also: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 See also:street See also:life, done about 1843, while impressed with the See also: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 See also:atmosphere . After 1843 Hildebrandt, under the See also:influence of See also:Humboldt, extended his travels, and in 1864–1865 he went See also:round the See also:world . Whilst his experience became enlarged his See also:powers of concentration See also:broke down . He lost the See also: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 See also:composition and See also: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 See also:rest on the sketches which he made in the latter See also:form, many of them represented by chromo-See also:lithography . 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 See also: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 See also:sky—all alike display his quality of bravura . Hildebrandt died at Berlin on the 25th of See also:October 1868 .

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