Landscape painting must not be confused with a mere nature show and has been changing constantly from antiquity to the present day. The painter Edmund John Niemann, who was attracted to this art, lived from 1813 to 1876 and consequently experienced several art epochs, to which he devoted himself more or less. Due to his age, the landscape portraitist, born in Islington, London, has both the expiring epoch of Classicism and Romanticism as well as the new epochs: Biedermeier, Realism and Impressionism. E. J. Niemann proves that landscape cannot be reduced to natural phenomena alone with a wide selection of different subjects. If the river landscapes of the Thames and the Swale near Richmond in Yorkshire are also among his favourite motifs, his broad repertoire of urban, rural and near-natural picture centres reveals the diversity of his painting.
Because of his father John Diedrich Niemann, a member of Lloyds from Minden Westphalia, Edmund was also initially a bank employee in the City of London. Only a few months later, the still young art lover was drawn out and from then on he devoted himself to art. In 1839 the landscape painter settled in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and from then on he painted outdoors. Already in 1844 his first works were recognized and E. J. Niemann exhibited his first work "On the Thames - near Great Marlow, Bucks" at the Royal Academy. The publication in numerous renowned galleries, such as the one mentioned above as well as the British Institution, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Institute and the Paris Salon, to name but a few, prove the class of the late painter. He also founded his own exhibition in 1848, the so-called "Free Exhibition", which was later to change into "The National Institution". Although the exhibition of far more than 500 paintings and sculptures was only of short duration, it was all the more successful.
The paintings of E. J. Niemann speak their own language, without hiding which painting styles the artist felt drawn to. Thus, the romantic subjects of William Turner or Caspar David Friedrich are just as popular as the charm of realistic realism. The latter is revealed by the very realistic use of colours, which the artist knew how to approach in many different facets. However, to let the gaze wander into the distance and yet to create a transcendental relationship between dream and reality is also the focus of his painting. Thus, in the paintings "Black Castle", "View of Whitby" as well as "Evening on the French Coast" and other painting studies, the romantic dream of a pictorial magic is recognizable. Here, above all, emotional processes between viewer and picture are to be stimulated, which reveal something much larger, exciting behind nature. The colour intensity of these paintings thus exposes the effect of light in space in a very special way. This is also the way some of Edmund John Niemann's paintings are meant to be dreamed, despite their closeness to reality.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1127768).jpg "Matlock Vale from the Tor, Derbyshire by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "A View on the Wharf near Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "St Alban Church, Denmark by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Buckingham Street, Strand, 1854 by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Heysham, Lancashire by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Chepstow Castle On The Wye, 1872 by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Black Castle, Wicklow by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Harrow from the First, Hampstead Heath, 1875 by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Town and Vale of Ffestiniog, Wales by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Bayley Lane, with Drapers Hall and St. Michael")
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.jpg "Evening on the French Coast by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "On the Eden, near Carlisle by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Rider with a Dog by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "The Elbor Rocks looking towards Glastonbury, with the artist, E.J. Niemann, painted by A.F. de Prades by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Near Atherstone by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Mountainous Landscape with River, Bridge and Cottages, 19th century by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Deer Stalking in the Highlands, a Quiet Shot by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Hoving Dean, Sussex Downs by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Abergavenny by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Gloucester Quay, 1858 by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "From Mulgrave Woods, Near Whitby by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "View of Richmond Hall, Yorkshire by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Chester Cathedral by Edmund John Niemann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457739).jpg "View of Billingbear by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Richmond upon Thames by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Old Henley Church by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "An extensive river landscape by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Newcastle upon Tyne by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "A Welsh Valley by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Bucks Damaged by Flood, Mapledurham, Berks, Morning by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Bristol Floating Harbour by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Penmaenmawr by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Stapleton by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "The Avon and Severn from Clifton Down by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Pynford, Near Surrey by Edmund John Niemann")
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.jpg "Arundel Castle, West Sussex, and Stream by Edmund John Niemann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120480).jpg "A View of Nottingham by Edmund John Niemann")
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