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Georg Friedrich Kersting Man Reading by Lamplight 1814
Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Reader by Lamplight (mk09) 1814
Oil on canvas,47.5 x 37 cm
Winterthur,Stiftung Oskar Reinhart
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Friedrich in his Studio (mk10) 1812,Oil on canvas
53.5 x 41 cm
Berlin,Nationalgalerie
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Friedrich Painting in his Studio (mk10) 1811,oil on canvas
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Hamburg,Kunsthalle
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Woman before a Mirror (mk10) 1827,oil on canvas
46 x 35 cm
Kiel,Kunsthalle
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio (mk22) 1812
Oil on canvas,51 x 40 cm
Berlin,Nationalgalerie,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Georg Friedrich Kersting At the Outpost (mk22) 1815
Oil on canvas,46 x 35 cm
Berlin,Nationalgalerie
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Man Reading by Lamplight (mk22) 1814
Oil on canvas,47.5 x 37 cm
Winterthur,Stiftung Oskar Reinhart
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Recreation by our Gallery mk79
1827
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Reader by Lamplight mk87
1814
Oil on canvas
47.5x37cm
Winterthur,Stiftung Oskar Reinhart
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Theodor Korner,Friedrich Friesen and Heinrich Hartmann on Picket Duty mk137
1815
Oil on canvas
46x35cm
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Georg Friedrich Kersting The Wreath-Binder mk138
1815
Oil on canvas
40x32cm
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio mk156
1811
Oil on canvas
51x40cm
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Georg Friedrich Kersting At the Mirror 1827
Oil on canvas,
46 x 35 cm
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Georg Friedrich Kersting On Outpost Duty 1815
Oil on canvas,
46 x 35 cm
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Caspar David Friedrich in Seinem Atelier mk181
1819
Berlin Staatliche Museum Preu Bischer Kulturbeitz
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio, 1819
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Stickerin am Fenster Stickerin am Fenster (1827?), Weimar, Schlossmuseum.
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Kinder mit Katzen Oil on canvas
Hannelore Gärtner: Georg Friedrich Kersting. Seemann, Leipzig 1988
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Georg Friedrich Kersting Kinder mit Katzen 31 October 1785(1785-10-31) 1 July 1847
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Georg Friedrich Kersting
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1785-1847
German
Georg Friedrich Kersting Gallery
Kersting was a friend of Caspar David Friedrich, the leading German Romantic painter; his style was influenced by Friedrich, and he shared that artist's romantic attitude, although in a more subjective manner. The two friends went on a walking tour of the Riesengebirge in 1810. During his many hikes with Friedrich, the two painted numerous sketches and observations from nature. He may have painted the staffage in some of Friedrich's early work??such as Morning in the Riesengebirge (1810?C11), a result of their walking tour.
He was also a friend of the painter Louise Seidler, who described him as "an altogether splendid and comical fellow" and often served as his model. In 1813 Seidler helped Kersting send a number of his works to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe was impressed and recommended that the Grand Duke Charles Augustus purchase his work The Embroiderer.
Kersting's most lasting works are his figures in interiors that borrow from seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. These paintings nevertheless feel contemporary due to the situations depicted and the effect of the artist's personality. The characters are often viewed from the back, as in Friedrich's work, and the scenes provide hints of narrative as the figures engage privately in everyday activities. A number of his works refer to his time in the volunteer corps, the "L??tzow rangers". He drew a full-length self-portrait in 1813, in which he wore the rangers' uniform. The painting On Sentry Duty (1815) depicts three rangers, including the artist Ferdinand Hartmann and the writer Theodor Körner, who fought with Kersting and died in wars against the French.
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