Figure Drawing: Johann Martin Schuster

Johann Gottfried Schadow. Die Zeichnungen

Approximately 2200 drawings make up this extensive survey of the graphic work of Johann Gottfried Schadow who is well known for his sculptures but less well known for his drawings.

The book includes drawings after antique sculpture, animal, nude and motion studies, portraits of his contemporaries, monuments and cartoons.

He was mostly interested in physiognomy and this book includes examples of his studies of the
physique and growth of humans from infant to old man. These works were published in 1834 and 1835 in Polyklet oder von den Massen des Menschen or Polykleitos or Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form and Nationalphysiognomien.

Review of the book with more illustrations: Johann Gottfried Schadow - Die Zeichnungen - Präsentation des soeben erschienenen Werkverzeichnisses mit Vorstellung eines neu erworbenen Schadow-Porträts

The former is available in English translation as an e-book at Figure-Drawings.com or as a printed book at Amazon.com: The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form.

Porträtzeichnung der Königin Luise by Johann Gottfried Schadow.

Friederike Helene Unger by Johann Gottfried Schadow.

Marie Christine Schlegel by Johann Gottfried Schadow.

Johann Gottfried Schadow und die Kunst seiner Zeit (German Edition)

Neoclassicism and Romanticism: Architecture - Sculpture - Painting - Drawings 1750-1848

Wo die Götter wohnen. Johann Gottfried Schadows Weg zur Kunst

Schadow, Sokrates und das Judentum. Johann Gottfried Schadow, Sokrates im Keller

Kunstwerke und Kunstansichten: 3 Bände

Klassiker der Karikatur

Johann Gottfried Schadow (Klassiker der Karikatur) (German Edition)

Friday, May 22, 2009

Johann Martin Schuster - Academic Figure Drawings

Several of these original drawings were for sale at the Ebay.com store w on p (works on paper), a few of them are still available, please check out the store.

Johann Martin Schuster was a painter in Nuremberg, Germany. He was born in 1667. He studied under the painter Johann Radir. In 1737 he became the Director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts, he died in 1738. He spent time in Florence, His main work in Nuremberg the ceiling of Aegidienkirche. He also painted historical pictures. Some chalk drawings survive. These are a few of the figurative works.

A mention in Nuremberg and Its Art to the End of the 18th Century By Paul Johannes Rée (1905), George Henry explains further Schuster's contribution to the Church of St. Egidius:
"The old Gothic choir was used again in the new building, but it received a showy coating of stucco. The Barock high altar was adorned with a studio-copy of Van Dyck's "Virgin mourning over the Dead Christ" (at Berlin), to which a heavenly glory was added by one of the Preisler family. To the choir was joined a domed part, of which the dome, with painted spandrels, did not project so as to be seen outside. Lunette heads for door and window openings cut into the flat domical roof of the main part, adorned with gay stucco grotesques and a great, very mannered central picture, the work of Johann Martin Schuster and Johann Daniel Preisler."