Alfred Seifert: life and works

Alfred Seifert (September 6, 1850 Praskolesy, Bohemia – February 6, 1901, Munich, Germany), born in present-day Czech Republic. Seifert was a Czech-German painter, acclaimed for his female portraits.

He was born in Praskolesy (present-day Czech Republic), but within a few months, his family moved to understandable Hořovice. As a child, he fell seriously ill, could not promenade for four years and spent two years in an orthopedic institution. Instead of playing, he began to appeal pictures and his artistic facility soon started to emerge. His first teachers were Karl Würbs, inspector of the Estates Gallery at Prague Castle, and Alois Kirnig, a landscape painter. After two years of studies at a high school in Malá Strana (Lesser Town of Prague), he normal an open to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1869. In 1876, he opened his own workshop there.

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Seifert focused on portraits of women, especially on sentimentally mooded heads of girls which became known as “Seifert type”. Critics appreciated a well-thought composition of paintings, attention to detail, as competently as harmonic colors and a jovial atmosphere.

Seifert spent most of his enthusiasm in Germany. In native Bohemia, he was personally just about unknown, though he had exhibitions in Prague and black-and-white reproductions of his works regularly appeared in Světozor magazine. Some Czechs criticized his nonappearance of patriotism by pointing out upon his preference for foreign topics over domestic ones. His approach, however, was explained by financial reality: to make his living, he had to create such paintings that his Munich audience was acceptable to buy. In Bohemia, his works did not sell well, even if he accommodated. For example, a records painting Jan Augusta welcomes Filipina Welser waited long for a buyer. To a church in Hořovice, he donated his painting Ave Maria, depicting a young girl praying to Virgin Mary.

His other well-known works include: Ophelia, Titania, Walk out of the gate, Spring of love and Tales of spooks.

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