Female nude, titled "Ophelia at the Water's Edge"

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About the Item

Ernst Ewerbeck was an important avante-garde painter, illustrator, and graphic artists active in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The artist was born in Aachen, Germany but traveled throughout the country and other parts of Europe for his artistic training. Ewerbeck first studied at the local Academy in Aachen, Germany, then progressed to the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts— Akademie der Bildenden— in Munich, where he studied under the Slovene painter Anton Azbe (1862–1905). Ewerbeck eventually settled in Berlin. In Berlin, Ewerbeck concentrated on painting in oil, often depicting figures, primarily women. The artist was well known during his lifetime and was favorably received, especially for his work that was reproduced in various important German Periodicals, such as “Jugend” First appearing in 1896, "Jugend" was a general illustrated weekly magazine. The novel and fashionable covers were often in a lithographic tone and lavishly incorporated information on clothes in vogue, witty caricatures, and advertisements of the newest goods on the market. Despite the meagerness of each of its issues, composed of not more than 20 pages, the magazine enjoyed a spectacular success in turn-of-the-century Europe, particularly in Munich. The artistic movement "Jugendstil" owed its name to "Jugend" magazine. Jugendstil literally means "style of youth" in German, and is the German analogue to the French Art Nouveau movement. Its creative activities carried out in Munich by progressive artists from the mid 1890's through around 1907. The artistic activities of the period, encompassing fine arts, architecture, furniture, handicrafts, bookbinding, poster designs and fashions, are summarized as "fin-de-siecle" (end of the century) arts, a term which often referred to the work of Ewerbeck. For reasons unknown, Ernst Ewerbeck immigrated to Chile in his later years, and often signed his paintings “Carlos Ewerbeck”. This is probably a result of his ultimately retiring to Chile, where the artist continued painting up until his death. He is recorded as dying in Berlin in 1920. Ewerbeck’s work, Ophelia, was inspired by his exposure to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a school formed by a group of young English artists in 1848 that was at its height during the years Ewerbeck spent in England. The Pre-Raphaelites created an entirely new style of painting that reflected the romance of medieval chivalry while documenting Victorian social themes. Ophelia was a favorite subject for the Pre-Raphaelites who often depicted literary characters from Shakespeare, as well as from the works of Yeats and Keats. Ewerbeck depicted the comely Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a style lovely in its precision, realism and thematic content.

Creator:
Ernst Ewerbeck (1872 - 1920)
Creation Year:
1900
Dimensions:
Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 38 in (96.52 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Pre-Raphaelite
Period:
Late 19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Washington, DC
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU123825071611