Friedrich Paul Nerly
Friedrich Paul Nerly or Federico Paolo Nerly (October 26, 1842 – May 19, 1919) was an Italian-German painter who specialized in seascapes.
Biography
He was born in Venice. His father was the German landscape painter, Friedrich von Nerly, with whom he completed his first studies. He later enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, studying under professors Eugene de Blaas, Federico Moja, and Pompeo Mariano Molmenti. In 1862–1865 and in 1866, he served in the army. He visited the principal artistic cities of Germany: Düsseldorf, Weimar, Munich, and Dresden. In 1868, he traveled to Francia, Austria, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, and visited Rome, Naples, and Sicily.
He moved to Naples and Sicily to paint. His masterworks included Fishing in the Gulf of Siracusa, bought by the German emperor; I bragozzi dell' Adriatico, bought by the Civic Museum of Danzig; Palermo, veduta, bought by the Duchess of Genoa; Litorale veneto, bought by Revoltella Civic Museum at Trieste; The Lagoon of Venice, property of the Duke of Coburg; and Island of Capri, parte meridionale, which was sold to the Baroness of Friedlander in Berlin. Among his other works are Il salto di Tiberio veduto dal mure; Isola di Capri, exhibited at Rome in 1883; La spiaggia di Massa; Tempestuous Sea in the Gulf of Salerno, exhibited at Venice in 1887 and at Bologna in 1888; Burrasca; Marina di Napoli; and Sulla spiaggia.[1] He died in Lucerne in 1919.
References
- ↑ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 336.
External links
Media related to Friedrich Paul Nerly at Wikimedia Commons
- 1840s births
- 1919 deaths
- Painters from Venice
- Painters from Naples
- 19th-century German painters
- 19th-century Italian painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Italian landscape painters
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni
- 20th-century German painters
- 19th-century Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian male painters
- 19th-century German male painters
- 20th-century German male painters
- Italian painter, 1840s birth stubs