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Oil on panel signed Emil Gottlieb Schuback* depicting an interior scene with an elderly man (churchman or priest type) listening attentively to a young woman's words in order to give her advice, in a giltwood frame, 19th century period.
This painting is in good condition. Signed lower right, with an old sales label on the back and a plaque on the frame.
Please note: some minor damage and missing parts on the frame, some scratches on the paint at the top, wear and tear from age, see photos.
is a German genre painter and lithographer (1820-1902), close to the Nazarene movement.
Schuback received his initial painting instruction from Gerdt Hardorff at the Hamburg School of Art and Letters and became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association in 1832. At the age of sixteen, he went to Munich, where he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Peter von Cornelius and Heinrich Maria von Hess. His collaboration with Cornelius led him to become involved in the Nazarene movement. Consequently, he traveled to Rome in 1844 to join a group of like-minded German artists, including Heinrich Dreber, Günther Gensler, and the sculptor Heinrich Gerhardt. He returned to Hamburg in 1848, where he focused on genre and history painting. In 1855, he moved to Düsseldorf to work under the renowned genre painter Rudolf Jordan and became associated with the Düsseldorf School of Painting. From then on, he devoted himself exclusively to genre paintings. Many scenes of children's lives are depicted, reflecting his wife Emma's profession as a schoolteacher. Later, she founded her own girls' school, the "Schuback'schen Schule," which remained open until 1911. Schuback was also a member of the Malkasten Artists' Association and the Düsseldorf Artists' Association. In 1885, he undertook another extended stay in Rome. A major retrospective was held at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf shortly after his death.
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