Eugen Ankelen

EUGEN ANKELEN ( Germany,1858 -1942).
"View of the port of Naples".
Oil on canvas.
It has slight Punctures.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 81 x 157 cm.
In this work the author presents us an image of realistic aesthetics, a fluvial landscape worked with short and detailed brushstrokes. This brushstroke is also combined with a game of glazes that confers a certain atmosphere to the landscape, a clear and bright morning light that is reflected both in the plane where the buildings are located and in the sea. Although it is a scene where the author combines the view of the city, arranged in the last plane, with the sea. The latter becomes the undisputed protagonist of the painting, due to its presence on the pictorial surface. It is worth mentioning as a resource the arrangement of a small boat in the center of the composition. A characteristic that facilitates the author the creation of a space in perspective where a great depth can be appreciated.
Eugen Ankelen was born in 1858 in Laupheim, Germany, and was a renowned German painter and writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He studied at the Academies of Stuttgart and Munich between 1879 and 1881. His works are exhibited in the museums of Munich and Ludwigshafen.