Küstenlandschaft mit Fischern, Hildebrandt 18421842

Signed E. Hildebrandt Paris 1842. Eduard Hildebrandt (9 September 1818 in Danzig – 25 October 1868 in Berlin) was a German landscape painter. He received his first artistic lessons from his father. At the age of twenty Hildebrandt moved to Berlin in 1837 and found accommodation in the studios of various painters. The following year, Hildebrandt went on a study trip to the island of Rügen and discovered the landscape of the German Baltic coast as a subject. After his return he got a job in the studio of the marine painter Wilhelm Krause. In 1839 Hildebrandt went on a study trip through England and Scotland, with a focus again on the coast. He went to Paris, where, about 1842, he entered the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Isabey and became the companion of Lepoittevin. In a short time he sent home pictures which might have been taken for copies from these artists. Gradually he mastered the mysteries of touch and the secrets of effect in which the French at this period excelled. He also acquired the necessary skill in painting figures, and returned to Germany, skilled in the rendering of many kinds of landscape forms. His pictures of French street life, done about 1843, while impressed with the stamp of the Paris school, reveal a spirit eager for novelty, quick at grasping, equally quick at rendering, momentary changes of tone and atmosphere.