Romantical genre  oil painting by well-renowed german historical,  portrait and fresco artist August Ferdinand Hopfgarten (1807 Berlin - 1896 Berlin).

He studied  since  1820 at the Art Academy in  Berlin  by Heinrich Anton Daehling, Johann Gottfried Niedlich and Wilhelm Wach. The academy price in  1825 made  a five-year stay in Rome for him possible between 1827 and 1832. He became the member of famous  "Ponte-Molle Gesellschaft" and took part at the german exhibition in 1828. After his return 1833 he was established as successful portrait and genre painter in the tradition of old "Berliner school" and his teacher C.W.Wach. Historical painting "Tasso before Leonore von Este" (created 1839) situated in the National gallery in Berlin.He took part in stereochromen painting of the city castle  chapel of Berlin and in the hero paintings in the north dome hall of the New Museum in Berlin. Since 1828 he represanted regulary in the exhibitions of Berlin Academy. In 1854 he became a professor and member of the Art Academy  in Berlin.  August Ferdinand Hopfgarten died on 26 July 1896 in Berlin. His grave lies on the cemetery II of the cathedral municipality in Berlin.

Works by Hopfgarten:

  -Wall paintings  in the castle  chapel of the Russian Great Princess Elizabeth Michailovna, Wife of Herzog Adolf of Nassau, Wiesbaden;

 -1827-1829 Boas und Ruth, Öl auf Leinwand, 123 x 93,5 cm, Nationalgalerie Berlin

 -Räuberische Sarazenen;

 -1839 Tasso vor Eleonora der Este, Nationalgalerie in Berlin ;

 -Arminia sucht ihre Geliebten unter den Hirten (nach Tasso) ;

 -Die Rosen der heiligen Elisabeth

Literature:  Prof.H.Fuchs,  Lexicon of austrian artists, Vienna; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999; Lexicon von Boetticher

Inscription: signed rechts in the middle, old metall plaque on the frma lower in the middle. 

Technique: oil on canvas. Luxuriousy original period frame.

Measurements:  unframed w 20 2/3" x h 21 " (52,5 x 53.5 cm), framed w 27 1/5" x h 27 1/2" (69 x 70 cm)

Condition: in very good condition due to the age, no inpaintings, original canvas.