Many maintain the nickname Checkmate is undeserved it should be called One More Move. This commission brought him fame and fortune, and he went on to other commissions, painting scenes from other plays, including works by Shakespeare. His publishing house contracted Mr Retzsch to paint 24 scenes from Goethe's Faust. Though there's little to document his rise as an artist, it's safe to say that he was sufficiently talented not only to stay at the academy for so long but also to attract the attention of the publisher and industrial pioneer FreiHerr Cotta. He became a faculty member nearly 20 years later and earned his full professorship five years after that. He started his career as a painter, etcher and draughtsman at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798, when he was 19 years old. This artist, whose full name is Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, doesn't have near the high profile his work merits. Let's go The Chess Players, Moritz Retzsch Won't you let us know about your fav chess painting via the comments section? Thanks! Today, Superprof selects just a handful of them to talk about. Thankfully, the monumental task of researching and detailing all of those chess-themed paintings is already done. It looks back over 800 years and features works from 700 different artists, along with commentary about how both the game of chess and the art of capturing it on canvas has changed through the centuries.Īs you are reading this article, no doubt in the hopes of discovering a few paintings that feature chess, you might now worry that you'll be reading forever because 800 years worth of paintings is a lot to read about. In fact, chess is the theme of so many paintings that Czech artist Peter Raabenstein compiled them all into a book, titled Chess in Art. Could there be two, more complementary disciplines?Īs painting and chess have quite a lot in common - they both require discipline, focus and good visualisation skills, it shouldn't come as any surprise that chess features in many pieces of painted art. People are passionate about beautiful tableaux people are passionate about chess. Chess and painting are 'done' all over the world. Chess and painting have been around for a long time.
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