Family portraits

Hallo Rosamund

Are you talking about August Noack (1822-1905)? What a coincedence!!

Yesterday there was an article about an exhibition of August Noack  in the Darmstädter Newspaper. The exhibition will be at the Kunstarchiv in DA, in the  Kennedyhouse, Kasinostraße, for those who are interested. Starts on 22. November.

From 1855 till his death he was the appointed "Hofmaler" (I can't figure out the english word).
In the article it is also said that his work included various pictures of the Grand Dukes Family. But I don't know if the exhibition shows some, but I hope, because I'm planning to go. There will also be a catalog of the exhibit.
Landgraf Moritz is taking over the patronage.



VN


P.S. Maybe you can read the article online!?

http://www.echo-online.de/3/detail.php3?id=331356&search_text=August+Noack

Thank you for this, unfortunately the translator did not work on the article but I have found out that he 'painted historical topics for Schloss and churches and arranged historical motives from the time of the Sweden wars and the reformation.'  

http://www.n-k-b.de/archiv.htm#Christian%20Karl%20August%20Noack

I hope you enjoy the exhibition.

Not a portrait I know! But looks like a real masterpiece. Almost ready portrait.



The one of Ernst I really like!

He looks very handsome!...Almost dashing. They were a beautiful family!!

What a fantastic picture!! He looks like a film star and also a really interesting man!  

Not a portrait I know! But looks like a real masterpiece. Almost ready portrait.



The one of Ernst I really like!

I know this sounds kind of random, but Ernst in that photo has the "David Niven look"

Sly and witty, but his wife Ducky paints a different picture.

And she was generous-natured and unbiased.  

We've been over their relationship before and how much was true and how much was bitterness. Regardless, most accounts of him paint a picture of a charming, artistic, engaging, emotional, sensitive (often overly-so) if somewhat weak personality.

Still waiting anxiously for Greg King's English language bio on him!

Wonderful-thanks

   

From the Hesse exhibit catalogue [Portland. OR.] Has anyone  been to see this yet ?  I just recieved the catalogue and it is magnificent- should be for the price !
I was planing to go next month, Portland is only a short flight from SF, but now that I have the catalogue I am wondering if that is enough ?

Wow,this is great!Are there some more portraits in those cataloques?

Actaully- yes. But the book is pretty large and hard to fit on the scanner !

Here is another from the same book. I am confident that I need not give a bio of the little princess.

Another page. I thought the little crown for Princess Elisabeth quite interesting.
And I am so sorry, I thought I had condensced the photos.  If someone can do it for me, please do !
[one of the things I most complain about- TOO LARGE photos, and I do it myself !]

 you don't have to apologize,we all love large photos; wow amazing,that book must be a wonder...do you have photos of Victoria Melita too???i haven't seen these before.

Laura

Thank you Robert so much for this!I have never seen those...   I am also wondering about Victoria Melita or maybe Eleonore...are they also in the cataloque?