Joseph Fay
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Joseph Fay (August 10, 1813, Cologne - July 27, 1875, Düsseldorf) was a German painter.
Biography
He attended from 1833 to 1841 the Academy at Düsseldorf, and afterwards studied at Munich, and at Paris under Paul Delaroche. He first painted historical subjects, and had a happy talent in representing scenes from the life and manners of the old Germans. Not meeting with sufficient encouragement, he changed his style for genre painting, for which purpose he visited Italy. He depicted scenes in Italian life. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Works
The following are among his best works:
- Der St. Gangolfs Brunnen. 1837.
- Genovefa. 1838.
- Samson and Delilah. 1839. Cologne Museum
- Cleopatra. 1841.
- A large frieze. Elberfeld court house. This was a series of frescoes which portrayed the history of Germany from the destruction of the Varian legionsh. It has perished, but some cartoons of it still exist.
- Thisbe listening.
- Romeo and Juliet. 1846.
- Gretchen in Prison. 1847.
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Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from the article "FAY, Joseph" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Fay, Joseph". Encyclopedia Americana.
- Moritz Blanckarts (1877), "Fay, Josef", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German) 6, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 590–591
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