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THBSWISS RELIGIOUS PAINTING, VON DESCHWANDEN, EASTER
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MELCHIOR PAUL VON DESCHWANDEN (Swiss 1811-1881)
Easter - The Angels of the Resurrection - 1861
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
50 inches x 41 inches (127 x 104 cm), contained in its likely original ornate gilded frameMelchior Paul Von Deschwanden was a noted Swiss painter who devoted himself to religious subjects. He studied drawing with Louis Victor von Deschwanden, Johann Kaspar Moos (1825–1826) in Zug, Daniel Albert Freudweiler and Johann Caspar Schinz in Zurich (1827), and then he enrolled in the Munich Academy in 1830. After going to Lausanne to learn French (1835–1836), he returned home until 1838-1840 when he enrolled at the Florentine Academy and while there he won a first prize. He was particularly drawn to the works of Fra Angelico.
After a meeting with the Nazarene artist Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869), he made a conscious decision to devote his life's work to religious painting. After returning to Switzerland finally, he received his first order from an ecclesiastical source, altarpieces for the chapel of St. Peter in Lucerne. In 1842, he met members of the Düsseldorf School of painters and became interested in the work of the Austrian artist Edward Steinle (1810-1886), a fashionable religious painter and a Nazarene. In 1845, he discovered in the church of St. Louis in Munich murals by Peter von Cornelius a classical artist who had been influenced by the Nazarenes, and visited one of his pupils, the portrait painter and history painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874). Though himself a portraitist of talent, he devoted more of his time to religious paintings, creating a style of simple understandable compositions, expressive figures and a smooth technique. Deschwanden is believed to have painted over 2000 works, amongst which the greatest number are altarpieces, and for nearly forty years he dominated religious painting in Switzerland, whose works were well received in Catholic and Protestant circles, and consequently he sent his works all over the world, and examples of may be found in churches in Annapolis, Maryland and Covington, Kentucky. His work was widely reproduced in pious chromolithographic reproductions as well.
Deschwanden is known to have taken many pupils, amongst whom were the fellow artist from Stans, Adalbert Baggenstos, and the Swiss-born American painter Adolfo Müller-Ury in whose arms he is documented as dying in February 1881.
The offered painting depicts Easter morning as three angels of the Lord looking at Christ at the moment the stone is rolled back and He emerges from his tomb, having risen from the dead.
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