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THEODOR HILDEBRANDT (1804-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 461 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HILDEBRANDT (1804-1874)  , See also:German painter, was See also:born at See also:Stettin . He was a See also:disciple of the painter See also:Schadow, and, on Schadow's See also:appointment to the See also:presidency of a new See also:academy in the Rhenish provinces in 1828, followed that See also:master to See also:Dusseldorf . See also:Hildebrandt began by See also:painting pictures illustrative of See also:Goethe and See also:Shakespeare; but in this See also:form he followed the traditions of the See also:stage rather than the See also:laws of nature . He produced rapidly " See also:Faust and See also:Mephistopheles " (1824), " Faust and See also:Margaret " (1825), and " See also:Lear and Cordelia " (1828) . He visited the See also:Netherlands with Schadow in 1829, and wandered alone in 1830 to See also:Italy; but travel did not alter his See also:style, though it led him to cultivate alternately See also:eclecticism and See also:realism . At Dusseldorf, about 183o, he produced " Romeo and Juliet," " See also:Tancred and Clorinda," and other See also:works which deserved to be classed with earlier paintings; but during the same See also:period he exhibited (1829) the " Robber " and (1832) the " See also:Captain and his See also:Infant Son," examples of an affected but kindly realism which captivated the public, and marked to a certain extent an See also:epoch in Prussian See also:art . The picture which made Hildebrandt's fame is the " See also:Murder of the See also:Children of See also:King See also:Edward " (1836), of which the See also:original, afterwards frequently copied, still belongs to the Spiegel collection at See also:Halberstadt . Comparatively See also:late in See also:life Hildebrandt tried his See also:powers as an See also:historical painter in pictures representing See also:Wolsey and See also:Henry VIII., but he lapsed again into the romantic in " Othello and Desdemona." After 1847 Hildebrandt gave himself up to portrait-painting, and in that See also:branch succeeded in obtaining a large practice . He died at Dusseldorf in 1874 .

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