Alfredo Noack

Italian / German (1833 - 1895)
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Alfredo Noack Boy with Cow 1880s

Biography

Born 1833
Died 1895
Nationalities Italian
German
Birth place Dresden

Alfredo Noack was born in Dresden but moved to live in Genoa in Italy, where he set up a studio in Vico del Filo. He specialised in taking landscapes for the growing tourist industry. He created images of Italian village life showing scenes of shepherds and cowherds - subjects that had long since become traditional in European painting. At the same time, by representing peasants at work, he was responding to the nineteenth-century Realist movement in art.

Artworks

Riviera di Levante, Sestri Levante [Ligurian East Riviera] Unknown
Boy with Cow 1880s
Genoa, Panorama Unknown
Statua di Cristoforo Colombo, Genova [Columbus statue, Genoa] Unknown
Genova, Casa di G. Mazzini [Mazzini's home, Genoa] Unknown
Genova, S. S. Annunziata Interno [St Annunziata Church, Interior, Genoa] Unknown
Genova, Camposanto Mon. Lavarello (Saccomanno) [Genoa] Unknown
Genova, Casa di Colombo [Columbus' home, Genoa] Unknown
Genova, Panorama [Genoa] Unknown
Interior of a gallery in the cemetery of Staglieno, Genoa About 1870 - 1890
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Glossary terms

Realism

  • Used generally for art that attempts to represent things as they appear. It specifically refers to a mid-nineteenth century movement in France, led by Gustave Courbet, that rejected the sometimes obscure subject matter of academic painting in favour of more accessible scenes of everyday life.