Friedrich Paul Nerly
Friedrich Nerly or Federico Nehrlich (October 26, 1842 – 1919) was an Italian painter who specialized in seascapes.
Biography
Nerly was of Prussian nationality. He completed his first studies with his father, a well known landscape artist. He later enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, studying under professors Eugene de Blaas, Federico Moja, and Pompeo Mariano Molmenti. In 1862–65 and in 1866, he served in the army. He visited the principal artistic cities of Germany: Düsseldorf, Weimar, Munich, and Dresden. In 1868, he traveled to Francia, Austria, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, and visited Rome, Naples, and Sicily.
He moved to Naples and Sicily to paint. His masterworks included Fishing in the Gulf of Siracusa, bought by the German emperor; I bragozzi dell' Adriatico, bought by the Civic Museum of Danzig; Palermo, veduta, bought by the Duchess of Genoa; Litorale veneto, bought by Revoltella Civic Museum at Trieste; The Lagoon of Venice, property of the Duke of Coburg; and Island of Capri, parte meridionale, which was sold to the Baroness of Friedlander in Berlin. Among his other works are Il salto di Tiberio veduto dal mure; Isola di Capri, exhibited at Rome in 1883; La spiaggia di Massa; Tempestuous Sea in the Gulf of Salerno, exhibited at Venice in 1887 and at Bologna in 1888; Burrasca; Marina di Napoli; and Sulla spiaggia.[1]
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- ↑ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 336.