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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851)
Born on April 23, 1775 in London and died on December 19, 1851 in Chelsea. Turner, who studied at the Royal Academy starting in 1789 and at the same time undertook a schooling with the artist Thomas Malton, exhibited his first watercolors at the Royal Academy as early as 1790. In 1802 he was elected to the Royal Academy where he, starting 1796, regularly exhibited; in 1807 he was named Professor. His first travels to the continent were through France and Switzerland; further study journeys brought him repeatedly to Venice, Rotterdam, Munich and to the Rhine region. In 1807 he began to publish his engravings entitled "Liber Studiorum". Turner reworked his travel sketches into innovative visions in which he often tried out novel techniques. Having basically freed his works from subject, his very painterly style takes its cues from the enveloping atmosphere caused by light. Having been finely tuned to the indicators of his times, Turner brought together in his works the tradition of the Antique, as well as more nationally related themes. |
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