Circus Performance, 1861 - Canvas Prints Frame:Wrapped “Inger in black and violet”

“Inger in black and violet” by the famous painter Edvard Munch is a portrait of his sister

although this pose could also derive from the Netherlands and a painter like Memling

but this seems to have been the first time that he shows male and female gendered spaces as a deliberately contrasted pair

asymmetrical composition it looks ahead to the work of Giorgione and Titian

He called the painting 'the lightning conductor for my illness' because he felt that he could keep himself from going insane by continuing to paint

Circus Performance, 1861 - Canvas Prints Frame:Wrapped “Inger in black and violet”Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was a German painter. He executed portraits and landscapes, but is best known as a painter of animals. From 1857 to 1860 he attended the Prussian Academy of Arts. Later, he made several study trips to Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands and spent a year in Paris. In 1883, he established an animal painting class at the Academy. He was appointed a Professor there in 1887 and became a member of the Academic Senate.