The Artist Philip Sporrer

Hey dear community, at the beginning I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you had a day that brought some interesting experiences into your life! Today I would like to go into a little bit about art and hope you are able to expand your knowledge.

Here you can see an oil painting by the artist Philip Sporrer (1829 - 1899) who was particularly interested in painting historical themes or landscapes and in this work he portrayed the well-known painter Carl Spitzweg (1808 - 1885) who was considered one of his friends. He was extremely interested in history and also addressed important topics such as blacksmiths and already early on he discovered a great passion for art and decided to study the topic and he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, which is known as one of the oldest art schools in Germany. Sporrer was considered a relatively diverse personality and in addition to his paintings he also created murals as well as some illustrations and in his later life he decided to join the education system and was appointed professor in a Munich at a technical university where he shared his knowledge of art. His paintings look extremely atmospheric and in his paintings he always pays attention to a high degree of detail as well as the choice of the right colors and other stylistic devices and in this portrait of Spitzweg his passion for painting comes into its own extremely well. I particularly like the dark background here, which ensures that the eye of the viewer is directed to the head and creates an amazing mood and he has depicted the painter very expressively with the right facial features. The choice of the right skin colors also comes out well and makes the artwork look very lively and if you pay attention to the details which in the third picture best come to the present, his passion stands out even more. In the past, I have also gone into more detail about the painter Carl Spitzweg and if you want to learn more about him, I can recommend visiting this post here.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about art history! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.