Andrews, Keith. The Nazarenes: A Brotherhood of German Painters in Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964
Friedrich Overbeck
Born: Lübeck, 3 July 1789
Died: Rome, 12 November 1869
Nationality: German
Died: Rome, 12 November 1869
Nationality: German
Background:
son of a lawyer-politician, mayor of Lübeck
Studies:
with Joseph Nikolaus Peroux (1804); with Alfred H. Maurer at Vienna Academy (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, 1806-09)
Career:
1806 – meets Franz Pforr at Vienna Academy
1809 – co-founds Nazarenes (Lukasbund), with Franz Pforr, Ludwig Vogel, Joseph Wintergerst, Joseph Sutter and Johann Konrad Hottinger
1810 – moves to Rome with Nazarenes, establishes artist cooperative at monastery of San Isidoro
1812 – Franz Pforr drowns, Nazarenes disband, Overbeck converts to Catholicism
1816-18 - Casa Bartholdy frescoes: Story of Joseph (now Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
1857 –commission from Pope Piux IX: Christ Evading his Pursuers on the Mountain near Nazareth, 1857 (Quirinale Palace, Rome)
Travels
Rome (1810-69)
Commissions from:
Salomon Bartholdy (Prussian Consul in Rome); Marchese Carlo Massimo; Pope Pius IX
Important Artworks:
Italia and Germania, 1811 and 1815-20 (Neue Pinokothek, Munich)
Adoration of the Magi, 1811-13 (Kunsthalle, Hamburg)
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