Artists
Friedrich Overbeck
- Country:
- Germany
- Birth year:
- 1789
- Death year:
- 1869
Johann Friedrich Overeck (1789 Lubeck-1869 Rome) studied first with Jean Peroux and later, from 1806, attended the founders of the Guild of St. Like there. Overeck moved to Rome in the autumn of 1809, where he resided for the rest of his life with the exception of a stay in Germany in 1831. The artist is valued as the leader of the "Nazarenes," a group of German painters living in Rome who took up residence in the monastery of S. Isadora in 1810, and produced a nationalistic yet religious art. Overeck participated in the collective work of the group with the decoration of the Casa Bartholdy in Rome, Begun in 1816/17, and the painting of the Villa Massimo between 1817 and 1827. Other works by the artist include Self-Portrait with Family, 1823, Sankt Annen Museum, Lubeck; and The Sale of Joseph and the Seven Lean Years, 1816/17, Nationalgalerie, SMPK, Berlin.