Hercules Seghers

Person · Open Library

Born

17th cent.

Works

5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1900-11-19

Active to

1983-06-01

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. 2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

   · 2012 · cited 2,518x

2. A Human Protein Atlas for Normal and Cancer Tissues Based on Antibody Proteomics

   · 2005 · cited 1,308x

3. Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amoebae:<i>Acanthamoeba</i>spp.,<i>Balamuthia mandrillaris</i>,<i>Naegleria fowleri</i>, and<i>Sappinia diploidea</i>

   · 2007 · cited 1,058x

4. Comparison and Evaluation of Methods for Liver Segmentation From CT Datasets

   · 2009 · cited 955x

5. 2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

   · 2012 · cited 953x

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Quotes

• “The method of printing with three wooden blocks produces painterly prints. But Hercules Segers first applied a layer of paint to his papers or fabrics for his smooth compositions of skies, horizons and foregrounds, and then printed on to them, in a very effective and painterly manner.”
• “And it is understandable, if it were possible to print finished paintings, as Hercules Segers has done with landscapes in our time, that it would no longer be easy to find anyone who would want to devote much labor and time to producing his works.”
• “Another fitting example here is that of Hercules Segers, disregarded and yet a great artist... ...His observation was unwavering and effective, particularly in his design of landscapes and compositions, with imaginary mountains and caves. It was as if he were pregnant with whole provinces, giving birth to them with immeasurable spaces, and picturing them to a marvel in his paintings and prints.”
• “..although he even painted and printed on his shirts and the sheets from his bed (for he also printed paintings), he and his whole family remained in abject poverty, so that his dejected wife eventually complained that there was not a piece of linen left that had not been used for paintings or prints.”
• “Unfortunately, we have no clues about Segers's reputation as an etcher during his lifetime, and it seems very probable that those of his prints which have survived were originally gathered in a few large, privately owned and therefore inaccessible groups. This inaccessibility partly explains their minimal influence on later artists.”
• “[ Rembrandt ] admired Seger's reworking of the [etch-]plate to create different states. This adventurous approach to printmaking [new developed by Segers] was taken up enthusiastically by Rembrandt, and gives a new significance undreamt of by Segers.”

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