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Gellert was born at Hainichen in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge.After attending the school of St. Afra in Meissen, he entered Leipzig University in 1734 as a student of theology, but in 1738 Gellert broke off his studies as his family could no longer afford to support him and became a private tutor for a few years. [2]
The works were seen to provide a rejection to humanism, a refusal to play the game of art as utopia, a negation of art as escapism, and a palpable cynicism about humanity. [23] Authors associated with New Objectivity literature included Alfred Döblin , Hans Fallada , Irmgard Keun , Erich Kästner , and, in Afrikaans literature , Abraham Jonker ...
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769), German poet; Dina Gellert (born 1961), Danish children's book illustrator; Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), Hungarian-American illustrator and muralist; Imre Gellért (1888–1981), Hungarian gymnast; Jay Gellert (born 1956), American CEO; Lawrence Gellert (1898–1979), American music collector
Hugo Gellert (Hungarian: Gellért Hugó) [1] was born Hugó Grünbaum on May 3, 1892 in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family. [2] In 1906, the family immigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City. They settled there and changed their surname. [2] Gellert studied at the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. He married a ...
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German: [ˈɡɔthɔlt ˈʔeːfʁa.ɪm ˈlɛsɪŋ] ⓘ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era.
Zeuxis Choosing Models for his Painting of Helen of Troy: 1778 (conjectural date) oil on canvas: Providence, Brown University: Utpictura18: Allegory: Colour from a series of four paintings representing the Elements of Art: 1778–1780: oil on canvas: Royal Academy, London: Académie: Portrait: William Heberden as a Boy (1767–1845) 1779: oil ...
Previously there had been several compassionate treatments in French art exhibited over the last quarter of the 19th century. Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize's painting for the 1877 Salon [27] was notable enough to be made part of the French exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and his own lithograph of it appeared in the programme. [28]
" Die Himmel rühmen des Ewigen Ehre" (The heavens praise the glory of the Eternal), Op. 48/4, is a composition for voice and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, setting the beginning of Christian Fürchtegott Gellert's poem "Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur" (The glory of God from nature), a paraphrase of Psalm 19.