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Gottfried Wals
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[[File:Goffredo Wals - Landschaft mit Jesus und Johannes dem Täufer.jpg|thumb|215px|Landscape with Jesus and</br> [[John the Baptist]]]]
[[File:Goffredo Wals - Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|275px|Landscape with the [[Flight into Egypt]]]]
'''Gottfried Wals''', or '''Goffredo Wals''' (c.1595, [[Cologne]] - 1638, [[Calabria]]) was a German painter who spent most of his career in Italy. He was sometimes referred to as '''Goffredo Tedesco''' (Goffredo the German).
== Biography ==
Little is known about his early life, except that he was born in Cologne. He wandered about through numerous Italian cities, including [[Naples]] and [[Genoa]]; arriving in Rome around 1615. There, he became an assistant to [[Agostino Tassi]], a harsh master who attacked him with blows from a club and was briefly imprisoned in 1616, when Wals filed a complaint.
The following year, he lived with the newly arrived [[Massimo Stanzione]], in the Roman quarter of [[Trastevere]]. From 1620 to 1622, [[Claude Lorrain]] was an occasional student of his. In 1623, he was back in Genoa with [[Antonio Travi]] as his student.
Most of his works were in small format, often circular and painted on copper. His interest in [[Composition (visual arts)|composition]] and lighting is very marked and often bears resemblance to the works of [[Filippo Napoletano]], who was in turn a follower of [[Adam Elsheimer]].
Few works of his have come down to us. His [[Catalogue raisonné]] contains only twenty-five works that have been definitely identified as painted by him. In comparison it is known that, in 1634, the Belgian-born merchant, Gaspard De Roomer (c.1600-1674) of Naples, owned sixty of his landscapes and fourteen drawings.
He most probably died in Calabria, during or shortly after the earthquake of 27 March 1638, which killed almost 10,000 people.<ref>Giovanna Capitelli, "Il paesaggio italianizzante", in; ''La pittura di paesaggio in Italia''.</ref>
==References==
==External links==
* [http://bit.ly/2Z0l2T5 More works by Wals] @ ArtNet
[[Category:1590s births]]
[[Category:1638 deaths]]
[[Category:German painters]]
[[File:Goffredo Wals - Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|275px|Landscape with the [[Flight into Egypt]]]]
'''Gottfried Wals''', or '''Goffredo Wals''' (c.1595, [[Cologne]] - 1638, [[Calabria]]) was a German painter who spent most of his career in Italy. He was sometimes referred to as '''Goffredo Tedesco''' (Goffredo the German).
== Biography ==
Little is known about his early life, except that he was born in Cologne. He wandered about through numerous Italian cities, including [[Naples]] and [[Genoa]]; arriving in Rome around 1615. There, he became an assistant to [[Agostino Tassi]], a harsh master who attacked him with blows from a club and was briefly imprisoned in 1616, when Wals filed a complaint.
The following year, he lived with the newly arrived [[Massimo Stanzione]], in the Roman quarter of [[Trastevere]]. From 1620 to 1622, [[Claude Lorrain]] was an occasional student of his. In 1623, he was back in Genoa with [[Antonio Travi]] as his student.
Most of his works were in small format, often circular and painted on copper. His interest in [[Composition (visual arts)|composition]] and lighting is very marked and often bears resemblance to the works of [[Filippo Napoletano]], who was in turn a follower of [[Adam Elsheimer]].
Few works of his have come down to us. His [[Catalogue raisonné]] contains only twenty-five works that have been definitely identified as painted by him. In comparison it is known that, in 1634, the Belgian-born merchant, Gaspard De Roomer (c.1600-1674) of Naples, owned sixty of his landscapes and fourteen drawings.
He most probably died in Calabria, during or shortly after the earthquake of 27 March 1638, which killed almost 10,000 people.<ref>Giovanna Capitelli, "Il paesaggio italianizzante", in; ''La pittura di paesaggio in Italia''.</ref>
==References==
==External links==
* [http://bit.ly/2Z0l2T5 More works by Wals] @ ArtNet
[[Category:1590s births]]
[[Category:1638 deaths]]
[[Category:German painters]]
April 08, 2019 at 03:12PM
