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Abstract: Romantic echoes in the creation of the artists active in Sibiu towards the middle of the nineteenth century. Heinrich Zuther. Heinrich Zuther, a painter of German origin who studied at the Arts Academy in Munich, was part of a group of artists - local and traveling - active in Sibiu towards the middle of the nineteenth century. Driven by the romantic “demon”, he travels everywhere in Europe, and even beyond, to exotic destinations on the shores of Southern Mediterranean. He stops, for a few years, in Sibiu, where he encounters an artistic milieu and a public with a certain bias towards consuming art. Although he is a rather unusual apparition in the Transylvanian artistic landscape, the local art historians place him among the documentarists. In fact, his creation comprises few works which would justify such an exclusive placement, while his other works that are known today, as well as a few details found in nineteenth century documents, reveal a romantic artist, with a thorough academic education. Zuther resorts to imagination, bringing forth a new way of seeing landscape, of understanding and interpreting it and especially of investing it with feelings, emotions, subjective and imaginary valences, the likes of which had never been seen before. Zuther’s presence in Sibiu infused novelty and freshness into the local art (much like the creation of Heinrich Trenk, active in Sibiu during the same period of time), but true to his destiny, forever in search of an illusory happiness, Zuther did not settle here, restricting the possibility to play an important part in the art of this geo-cultural area.
Keywords: Heinrich Zuther, Transylvanian painting, Sibiu, landscape, 19th century, Romantic elements, documentary painting |
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