Sunday, September 19, 2021

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher (Athenian Ruins)

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Acropolis
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Acropolis from the West
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Temple of Hyphaestus 
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Parthenon from the East
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Parthenon Interior
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Propylaeum
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Propylaeum from the East
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Erechtheion
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Temple of Nike
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Temple of Olympian Zeus
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Tower of Winds
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Hadrian's Arch
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Monument of Philopappos
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Market Gate
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Athens – Monument of Lysicrates
1890
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

"Karl Paul Themistocles von Eckenbrecher was a German landscape and marine artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Born to a German father and Italian mother while they were traveling in Athens, he was largely schooled by private tutors, as they traveled and moved often. The family eventually moved to Düsseldorf, where von Eckenbrecher was able to study with noted professor of landscape painting Oswald Achenbach."

– from a biographical sketch published by Pictorem, Montreal