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Eye Candy for Today: Albert Anker still life with Coffee and Potatoes

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Albert Anker - Stilleben, Kaffee und Kartoffeln, Still life with Coffee and Poratoes

Albert Anker - Stilleben, Kaffee und Kartoffeln, Still life with Coffee and Poratoes (details)

Stilleben, Kaffee und Kartoffeln (Still life with Coffee and Poratoes), Albert Anker

Link is to Wikimedia Commons page with high-res image.

This domestic still life by 19th century Swiss artist Albert Anker at first looks smoothly refined, but on closer inspection reveals itself to be quite painterly.

Stilleben, Kaffee und Kartoffeln, Wikimedia Commons

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5 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Albert Anker still life with Coffee and Potatoes”

  1. Ælle Avatar
    Ælle

    Anker, a modest, but modern Swiss Rembrandt?
    Wunderbar!

  2. Ælle Avatar
    Ælle

    http://www.albert-anker.ch/en/atelier.html

    The house where he was born, lived and worked . . .

    1. Charley Parker Avatar
      Charley Parker

      Thanks, Ælle.

  3. Ælle Avatar
    Ælle

    SightsWithin.com contain more of his coffee-still- life images on page 2.
    Also one of tea, sugar cubes and real cookies (Plätzchen).

  4. Melissa Elliott Avatar
    Melissa Elliott

    I don’t know how he manages to duplicate the exact dull sheen and texture of baked potato skins—it’s remarkable.

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