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 August Friedrich Siegert, German 1820-1883
An extremely popular Dusseldorf artist, August Siegert began his career as a painter of history, but finding his talents more in touch with life around him, he turned to portraits and genre studies.
A native of Neuwied, Germany, he spent the years between 1835 and 1846 as a pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy under Ferdinand Theodor Hildebrandt, know for his color and originality, and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, a member of the “Nazarites” of Rome who held a zeal for religious art. Not a great artist, Schadow nevertheless made an excellent teacher.
Siegert continued to study in his travels through Belgium, Holland, France and Germany. He finally settled in Dusseldorf in 1851. There he eventually became a teacher at the Academy and, in 1872, was appointed a Professor.
The artist exhibited regularly and was awarded a medal in Vienna. He was also appointed an honorary member of the Amsterdam Academy.
Siegert was extremely capable in the area of narrative painting; a style sympathetic to the charms of children which also happened to sell extremely well.
Biography excerpted from the unpublished catalog By Edward P. Bentley for the Haussner Restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland, titled: Haussner’s, The Children.
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