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Henry Fuseli
Swiss-born British painter, draughtsman and writer (–)
Henry FuseliRA (FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee;[1][2][3]German: Johann Heinrich Füssli[ˈjoːhanˈhaɪ̯nʁɪçˈfyːsli]; 7 February – 17 April ) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain.
Many of his successful works depict supernatural experiences, such as The Nightmare. He produced painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and his own "Milton Gallery". He held the posts of Professor of Painting and Keeper at the Royal Academy. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake.
Biography
[edit]Fuseli was born on 7 February , in Zürich, the second of 18 children.[4] Among his brothers and sisters were Johann Kaspar and Anna. His father was Johann Caspar Füssli, a painter of portraits and landscapes, and author of Lives of the Helvetic Painters. He intended He
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Henry Fuseli (in German, Johann Heinrich Füssli) (February 7, – April 16, ) was a painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who was born in in Zurich, Switzerland, but later settled permanently in England.
He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism, while others view him as a precursor of Symbolism and Surrealism. He was a fervent admirer of Shakespeare and John Milton and spent most of his active career in England. His most famous painting is The Nightmare (), in which a gargoyle type creature sits on a young woman sleeping in a strained posture.
He was a painter of heroic, literary, and surreal themes that often depicted elemental spirits, goblins, and other-worldly beings. He studied religion and theology, but came to detest it. The spiritual figures in his work are frequently dark and malevolent spirits. He was often maligned by his peers but in when he became an Royal Academician, reviews w
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Summary of Henry Fuseli
At a time when moralistic reverence and factual accuracy were staples of British academic painting, Fuseli stood out amongst his peers as the artist who revelled in the macabre and fantastical. In the new age of scientific and liberal enlightenment, Fuseli played rather on the spectator's primal fears and instincts in painted scenarios that would often marry the supernatural with the erotic. Coming from a strong theological background, Fuseli's intellectual interests would evolve along more philological and humanitarian lines and he carved out a successful parallel career as a theoretician and professor. He had honed his artistic practice, however, in an eight-year study period in Rome where Michelangelo proved to be his biggest stylistic influence. Thematically his art is most famous for its intense emotional content which was expressed through a series of interpretations of poetic and teatralisk works (including Milton and Shakespeare). Though not consider