Otto Magnus von Stackelberg

1786–1837 · Baltic German classicist and artist (1786-1837)
Eesti Ajaloomuuseum; Eesti Kunstimuuseum

Baltic German archaeologist, artist (architectural and landscape draughtsman), art collector. He was born at Vääna manor as the son of Otto Christian Engelbrecht von Stackelberg and Anna Gertruda Dücker. He studied in Göttingen and Moscow law, archaeology and in 1786 art history, in 1808 in Dresden painting. He stayed in Italy for the first time in 1804, travelled in 1808 to Italy for the second time. In 1808-1810, staying in Rome, he associated with B. Thorvaldsen and J. A. Koch. In July 1810 he travelled from Naples to Greece, where in 1810-1816 he worked at excavations in Greece (Aegina, Phigaleia). In 1816 he travelled for the third time to Italy, was a co-founder in Rome of the "Instituto Archeologico Germanico", as well as in 1824 a founder of the "Römischen Hyperboraeer" group together with Northern European scholars who studied classical ruins. In 1816-1828 he was active in Rome, in 1828-29 in Paris and London, in 1833-1835 in Dresden, from 1835 in Petersburg. In 1826 Stackelberg's main work "Der Apollotempel zu Bassae in Arcadien und die daselbst ausgegrabenen Bildwerke" was published. (machine translation of the holder's Estonian text, unedited)

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Paestumi maastik, Otto Magnus von StackelbergPaestumi maastik
1810 · Eesti Kunstimuuseum
Šahrazad jutustamas, Otto Magnus von StackelbergŠahrazad jutustamas
Eesti Kunstimuuseum
Naine lapsega, Otto Magnus von StackelbergNaine lapsega
Eesti Ajaloomuuseum
Maastik templi varemetega, Otto Magnus von StackelbergMaastik templi varemetega
1826 · Eesti Kunstimuuseum

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Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: August Friedrich Schuch · Johannes Hau · Wassili Žukowski · Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen · Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius · Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Krestlingk

Contemporaries in Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Johann Carl Emanuel von Ungern-Sternberg · Carl August Schwerdgeburth · Wilhelm Jury · Friedrich Geissler · Carl Krukenberg

By decade: 1810s · 1820s
By medium: Painting · Watercolour · Print
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia · Estonian History Museum

YearTitleTechniqueDimensionsHeld by
1810Paestumi maastikgouachelaius: 29.6 cm (vm); kõrgus: 11.6 cm (vm)Eesti Kunstimuuseum
1826Maastik templi varemetegacopper engravinglehemõõt 28.2 x 36.5 plaadimõõt 24.7 x 31.5Eesti Kunstimuuseum
—Naine lapsegawatercolourlaius: 25.8 cm; kõrgus: 36.2 cmEesti Ajaloomuuseum
dateerimataŠahrazad jutustamasoillaius: 50.0 cm (arm.); kõrgus: 43.9 cm (arm.)Eesti Kunstimuuseum

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