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GENELLI, GIOVANNI BUONAVENTURA (1798 -- 1868) , See also:German painter, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 28th of See also:September 1798. He was the son of See also:Janus Genelli, a painter whose landscapes are still preserved in the Schloss at Berlin, and See also:grandson to See also:Joseph Genelli, a See also:Roman embroiderer employed to found a school of gobelins by See also:Frederick the See also:Great. Buonaventura Genelli first took lessons from his See also:father and then became a student of the Berlin See also:academy. After serving his See also:time in the See also:guards he went with a See also:stipend to See also:Rome, where he lived ten years, a friend and assistant to See also:Koch the landscape painter, a colleague of the sculptor See also:Ernst Hahnel (1811-1891), See also:Reinhart, See also:Overbeck and See also:Fuhrich, all of whom made a name in See also:art. In 1830 he was commissioned by Dr Hartel to adorn a See also:villa at See also:Leipzig with frescoes, but quarrelling with this See also:patron he withdrew to See also:Munich, where he earned a scanty livelihood at first, though he succeeded at last in acquiring repute as an illustrative and figure See also:draughts-See also:man. In 1859 he was appointed a See also:professor at See also:Weimar, where he died on the 13th of See also:November 1868. Genelli painted few pictures, and it is very rare to find his canvases in public galleries, but there are six of his compositions in oil in the See also:Schack collection at Munich. These and numerous See also:water-See also:colours, as well as designs for engravings and lithographs, reveal an artist of considerable See also:power' whose ideal was the See also:antique, but who was also fascinated by the See also:works of See also:Michelangelo. Though a German by See also:birth, his spirit was unlike that of Overbeck or Fuhrich, whose art was reminiscent of the old masters of their own See also:country. He seemed to hark back to the See also:land of his fathers and endeavour to revive the traditions of the See also:Italian See also:Renaissance. Subtle in thought and powerfully conceived, his compositions are usually mythological, but full of See also:matter, energetic and fiery in See also:execution, and marked almost invariably by daring effects of foreshortening. Impeded by straitened means, the artist seems frequently to have See also:drawn from See also:imagination rather than from See also:life, and much of his See also:anatomy of muscle is in consequence conventional and false.

But none the less Genelli merits his reputation as a bold and imaginative artist, and his name deserves to be remembered beyond the narrow limits of the See also:

early See also:schools of Munich and Weimar.

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