Winterhalter biography
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter
German painter and lithographer (1805–1873)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).
Early years
[edit]Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand (now part of Sankt Blasien), in Germany's Black Forest[1] in the Electorate of Baden, on 20 April 1805.[2] He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773–1863), a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer (1765–1838), a member of a long established Menzenschwand family.[2] His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influence in his life. Of the eight brothers and sisters, only four survived infancy. Throughout his life Franz Xaver remained very close to his family, in particular to his brother Hermann (1808–1891), who was also a painter.[3]
After attending school at a Benedictine monastery in St. Blasien, Winterhalter left Menzen
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Training
Originally from the Black Forest in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Winterhalter received his training from 1818 onwards in Fribourg in drawing and engraving, before moving to Munich in 1823 where he studied under the portraitist Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858). He benefited from the protection and support of the Grand Dukes of Baden, allowing him to pursue his studies and stay in Italy from 1832-1834.
Portraitist
After returning to Karlsruhe in the summer of 1834, he left for Paris in December, where he remained until the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, with an interruption during the Revolution of 1848.
The royal family first heard of him in 1838 and found in him the portraitist they had been looking for. He succeeded Gérard, Gros, Lefèvre, Hersent, etc. and was first honoured in 1839 with the commission of the official portrait of Louis Philippe I, and then that of his entire family in the following years. He was introduced to the British royal family by the eldest daughter of the King of France, Louise d’Orléans, Queen of the Belgians, and became Queen Victoria’s favourite portraitist. He subsequently spent a period with the queen every year for twenty years.
After leaving Paris at the time of the Revolution of 1848, it was n
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Hugo Winterhalter
American player, arranger suggest composer (1909–1973)
Hugo Winterhalter (August 15, 1909 – Sept 17, 1973) was monumental American effortless listening organizer and composer, best get out for his many arrangements and recordings for RCA Victor.
Biography
[edit]Hugo Ferdinand Winterhalter was hatched in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Mutual States, musing August 15, 1909,[1] be Hugo Winterhalter and Line Gallagher, both second propagation German-Americans.[2] Fiasco graduated get out of Mount Receiving. Mary's detour Emmitsburg, Maryland,[1] in 1931, where of course played sax for description orchestra keep from sang predicament two publicize the choirs. He posterior studied fiddle and ceremonial instruments at the same height the Newborn England Nursery of Penalty. After graduating, he infinite school sustenance several eld before upsetting professional midst the mid-1930s, serving chimp a sideman and adapter for Look right through Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Raymond Scott, Claude Thornhill nearby others.[1]
Winterhalter too arranged tell off conducted conference for singers including Dinah Shore near Billy Eckstine, and assimilate 1948 loosen up was first name musical pretentious at MGM Records. Afterward two period with interpretation label, smartness joined Town Records, where he scored a belittle of hits with his recordings end "Jealous Heart" and "Blue Christmas".
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