01 Painting, The amorous game, Friedrich Sturm's Paolo and Francesca, With Footnotes #83

 

Friedrich Sturm, Vienna 1823 - 1898 Weissenbach an der Triesting

Paolo and Francesca

Oil on canvas

122,5 x 102,3 cm ; 48 ¼ by 40 ¼ in.

Private collection

Sold for 6,300 EUR in November 2022

In the late eighteenth century, a romantic admiration for Dante spread throughout Europe and a whole generation of artists was inspired by his writings. Sturm, like artists such as Ingres before him, chose to illustrate the theme of the famous Canto V of Dante’s Inferno, which relates the last moments of Francesca da Rimini and her brother-in-law Paolo Malatesta – more precisely, the point just before the tragedy when Paolo’s brother, Gianciotto Malatesta, takes the two lovers by surprise. Sturm, a talented painter, elegantly conveys the drama of the scene, which is both tragic and tender, charming and chilling, in this harmoniously composed mise-en-scène. More on this painting

Friedrich Sturm, also Fritz Sturm (1823–1898) was an Austrian artist known for his decorative art and paintings of animals and flowers.

Sturm was born in Vienna. He started out as a student of his father, who was a porcelain and enamel painter, and then attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He then went on a study trip to Serbia and Hungary, where he worked as a theatre artist, portrait painter and painter of church art. He turned to fresco painting and specialized as a flower and animal artist. He decorated numerous Viennese buildings with wall and ceiling paintings, and he also painted on silk for the salon of the Empress of Austria. From 1853 to 1859 he sent his pictures to the monthly exhibitions of the Austrian Art Association. With the opening of the Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna in 1868 he became a professor at the associated School of Applied Arts, now the University of Applied Arts, and headed its department of plant, animal and ornament art until 1892. Women were also allowed to take part in his flower painting classes. From 1881 to 1889 he was director of the facility. He was retired due to illness in 1892. He died on 1 November 1898 in Weissenbach an der Triesting. More on Friedrich Sturm

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