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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableHenry Fuseli, born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zurich in 1741, is one of the most remarkable painters of his time. Fuseli came from an educated milieu and received his first painting impulses from his father, who was himself a landscape and still life painter. Fuseli's sisters were also painters. After studying theology, Henry Fuseli initially became a pastor, but then had to leave his native Zurich because of critical writings. At that time, the painting pastor had already studied ancient writings of Homer, Shakespeare and Dante.
In 1764, Fuseli settled in London after a brief stint in Berlin, where he had made a name for himself as a translator. The portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds supported him in concentrating on painting in the future. Between 1770 and 1778, Fuseli lived in Rome, intensively studying the works of Michelangelo and engaging with the art of antiquity. Back in London, Fuseli was accepted into the Royal Academy: His reputation was already legendary at the time. With the oil painting "Thor's Fight with the Midgard Serpent", Fuseli became a full member of the Academy. A few years later he also received a professorship.
What distinguishes the painting of the Swiss-English artist? Fuseli's art is considered suggestive, demonic, intensely sensual. The visionary, even gruesome is the subject of his painting. Fuseli realizes this, as in "Titania and Bottom," in sensuous colors and strong contrasts of light and dark. At the same time, the painter was a lover of theater and literature. In an emotionally charged manner, he illustrated Shakespeare's dramas, for example "Hamlet", in drastic black and white. The painting "The Three Witches Appear Macbeth and Banquo" is magnificent in its somber coloring and palpable drama.
Henry Fuseli, born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zurich in 1741, is one of the most remarkable painters of his time. Fuseli came from an educated milieu and received his first painting impulses from his father, who was himself a landscape and still life painter. Fuseli's sisters were also painters. After studying theology, Henry Fuseli initially became a pastor, but then had to leave his native Zurich because of critical writings. At that time, the painting pastor had already studied ancient writings of Homer, Shakespeare and Dante.
In 1764, Fuseli settled in London after a brief stint in Berlin, where he had made a name for himself as a translator. The portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds supported him in concentrating on painting in the future. Between 1770 and 1778, Fuseli lived in Rome, intensively studying the works of Michelangelo and engaging with the art of antiquity. Back in London, Fuseli was accepted into the Royal Academy: His reputation was already legendary at the time. With the oil painting "Thor's Fight with the Midgard Serpent", Fuseli became a full member of the Academy. A few years later he also received a professorship.
What distinguishes the painting of the Swiss-English artist? Fuseli's art is considered suggestive, demonic, intensely sensual. The visionary, even gruesome is the subject of his painting. Fuseli realizes this, as in "Titania and Bottom," in sensuous colors and strong contrasts of light and dark. At the same time, the painter was a lover of theater and literature. In an emotionally charged manner, he illustrated Shakespeare's dramas, for example "Hamlet", in drastic black and white. The painting "The Three Witches Appear Macbeth and Banquo" is magnificent in its somber coloring and palpable drama.
.jpg "The Nightmare, 1781 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Nightmare, c1790 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_The_Awakening_of_Titania_-_(MeisterDrucke-1081940).jpg "The Awakening of Titania by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Dido by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-318840).jpg "The Witch and the Mandrake by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Titania and Bottom by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude and Woman at the Piano by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, exhibited 1812 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Satan_calling_to_Beelzebub_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117390).jpg "Satan calling to Beelzebub by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Sin Pursued by Death by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Shepherds Dream, from Paradise Lost by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Titania")
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.jpg "Abel, the First Victim Sacrificed to Envy by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Achilles_trying_to_grasp_at_the_shade_of_Patroclus_-_(MeisterDrucke-1112540).jpg "Achilles trying to grasp at the shade of Patroclus by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Study of the Back of a Female Nude, Standing by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Prometheus Freed by Hercules by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Italian Court, or Ezzelier, Count of Ravenna musing over the body of Meduna, slain by him for infidelity during his absence in the Holy Land, c.1780 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Johann Heinrich Füssli by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-71538).jpg "The Nightmare Leaving Two Sleeping Women by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Teiresias foretells the future to Odysseus by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Head of a Damned Soul from Dante")
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.jpg "The Shepherd")
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_Fuseli_-_The_Shepherds_Dream_c1786_(pencil_red_chalk_and_grey_wash)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1409587).jpg "The Shepherd")
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.jpg "Achilles Searching for the Shade of Patrocles, 1803 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Tekemessa and Eurysakes by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Scene of Witches, from The Masque of Queens by Ben Jonson by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_The_Pain_of_Kriemhild_-_(MeisterDrucke-1421359).jpg "The Pain of Kriemhild by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Creation of Eve, 1791-93 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Queen_Mab_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172667).jpg "Queen Mab by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Dante Swoons before the Soaring Souls of Paolo and Francesca, Virgil at his Side by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Loneliness_at_dawn_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117389).jpg "Loneliness at dawn by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1288717).jpg "Sketch for \"Oath on the Rütli,\" Female Figure (verso) by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 c1785 - (MeisterDrucke-72909).jpg "Scene of Witches from")
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.jpg "A Woman Swooning at a Writing Table with a Threatening Figure Behind by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Titania, Bottom and the Fairies, Act 4, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night")
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.jpg "Ulysses Escaping from Polyphemus the Cyclops, engraved by I.G. Walker, 1808 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Percival Delivering Belisane by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Death of Cardinal Beaufort by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Mad Kate, 1806-07 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Fairy Queen Appears to Prince Arthur by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Sapphic Love by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Woman on a Sofa by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Falstaff_in_the_laundry_basket_-_(MeisterDrucke-1103654).jpg "Falstaff in the laundry basket by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Kriemhild_throws_herself_on_Siegfrieds_corpse_-_(MeisterDrucke-1422794).jpg "Kriemhild throws herself on Siegfried")
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.jpg "The Vision of the Deluge by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Milton Dictating to His Daughter by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Theodore Meets in the Wood the Specter of His Ancestor Guido Cavalcanti, Chasing with Mastiffs His Former Disdainful Mistress by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 (1804-05 - (MeisterDrucke-104726).jpg "Titania finds the magic ring on the shore, from")
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.jpg "An Old Woman Wearing a Rosary Cursing a Seated Man; Possibly Queen Margaret Cursing the Duke of Gloucester by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Thetis Mourning the Body of Achilles by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Woman Reading, Seated Before a Window by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Young_woman_with_elaborate_coiffure_standing_with_outstretched_right_arm_(pencil_-_(MeisterDrucke-1104688).jpg "Young Woman with Elaborate Coiffure Standing with Outstretched Right Arm by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Massacre of the Innocents by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Aided by Eeriboia, Hermes Carries Off the Exhausted Ares from the Sleeping Sons of Aloeus (recto); Sketch of One of the Sleeping Sons of Aloeus (verso) by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Study_for_self-portrait_by_Henry_Fuseli_(1741-1825)_drawing_Switzerland_-_(MeisterDrucke-1092132).jpg "Study for self-portrait by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_engraved_by_Robert_Thew_-_(MeisterDrucke-74995).jpg "Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV, by William Shakespeare, Engraved by Robert Thew by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 1772 (pe - (MeisterDrucke-259599).jpg "Edgar, Feigning Madness Approaches King Lear (recto) by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Witches in Macbeth by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Witch and the Mandrake by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Dispute between Hotspur, Glendower, Mortimer and Worcester by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Creation of Eve by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Artist in Despair over the Magnitude of Antique Fragments (right hand and left foot of the Colossus of Constantine) 1778-80 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Portrait Study of a Woman, Probably Mrs Fuseli by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking, 1783 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_The_three_confederates_during_the_Rutli_oath_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117392).jpg "The three confederates during the Rutli oath by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, engraved by W. Bromley, illustration from David Hume")
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_Fuseli_-_Theodore_rencontre_le_spectre_de_son_ancetre_Guido_Cavalcanti_Illustration_du_po_-_(MeisterDrucke-1423058).jpg "Theodore Encounters the Specter of His Ancestor Guido Cavalcanti (Illustration of the poem")
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.jpg "Tekemessa and Eurysakes by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-86766).jpg "The Nightmare by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Percival Delivering Belisane from the Enchantment of Urma by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Percival Frees Belisane from the Spell of Urma by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby, 1792 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Half Figure of a Courtesan with Feathers, a Bow and a Veil in her Hair, 1800-10 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1348041).jpg "Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos(?) by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Dead Hero with Goddesses, 1778, 1943 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Dido by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1292488).jpg "Portrait of a Woman (Martha Hess) by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-306998).jpg "Cassandra Raving, 18th Century by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Three Witches appearing to Macbeth and Banquo by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1276731).jpg "Figure Studies (recto and verso) by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Tekemessa and Eurysakes by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Theodore Meets in the Wood the Spectre of His Ancestor Guido Cavalcanti by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Head_of_a_Damned_Soul_from_Dantes_Inferno_(verso)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1421734).jpg "Head of a Damned Soul from Dante")
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.jpg "Ursula, c.1789 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Heavenly Ganymede, plate XV from the second issue of Specimens of Polyautography by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_from_the_first_issue_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-1274661).jpg "A Woman Sitting by the Window (")
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.jpg "The Newspaper in the Countryside, 1806-7 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Study for Inquisition, Illustration to Columbiad by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Hephaestus, Bia and Crato Securing Prometheus on Mount Caucasus by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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_Fuseli_-_Satan_Starting_from_the_Touch_of_Ithuriels_Lance_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315472).jpg "Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel")
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.jpg "The Duke of Gloucester Lying in Wait for Lady Anne at the Funeral Procession of Her Father-in-law, King Henry VI (recto); Standing Male Nude, Leaning Forward (verso) by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-52253).jpg "The Fire King appears to Count Albert, c.1801-10 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "An Hermaphrodite by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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.jpg "The Birth of Sin by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-195656).jpg "Portrait of Mrs Fuseli, c.1798 by Johann Heinrich Füssli")
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