PORTRAITS - as Interpreted by Zac Sawyer

KALOS - Introduction

© Copyright Zac Sawyer 2015

KALOS

Καλός - Kalos is a Greek word meaning beautiful, good, worthy - as an outward sign of the inward good, noble, honourable character; and seen to be so.

In ancient Greece the handsome ephebe was often described as 'kalos'.

Ephebos (often in the plural epheboi), also anglicised as ephebe (plural: ephebes) or archaically ephebus (plural: ephebi), is a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that age in Antiquity.
The Ephebe, or young boy, is a recurring theme in art, although particularly associated with Greek, (Hellenic), and Hellenistic sculpture, reliefs and vase painting.
In Europe, after the fall of Rome, interest in the ephebe as a subject for art declined until the Renaissance.
There was a further neglect of the subject in the Baroque and Rocco period, but the subject was favoured one again in the 19th Century and continues to interest artists right up to the present day.

A contemporary exponent of the representation of the ephebe is Otto Lohmüller (born 1943 in Gengenbach, Germany).
Lohmüller is a still active contemporary German figurative painter, sculptor and book illustrator, who is best known for images of young male nudes (usually in the 12 to 16 age range, mostly from his family and organizations he belongs to), although in his published work there is never any overt eroticism whatsoever.
His published works are listed in the Catalog of the German National Library.
He almost exclusively works with the human form, usually with minimal background and as could be expected, is an accomplished portrait artist.
His images are usually extremely accurate, often bordering upon the semi-photographic, but never slavishly so.
There have recently been accusations made against Otto Lohmüller,  in Germany,  of paedophilia.
We are in no position to say if Lohmüller is a paedophile, but he is attempting to remove all his nude male images from the internet, and has forcibly attacked and removed images from various blogs.
As these images are in no way related to paedophilia, or more accurately pederasty, we intend to re-instate these images in this blog - and others on the internet.

 We offer here some example of artists - other than Zac sawyer, in relatively recent time who have dealt with this subject.

'LE LECON DE FLUTES'

Jules-Elie Delaunay - (1828 - 1891)





'LA SOURCE'

Henry Charles Devilliers - (1848-68)





'SORCERERS  SLAVE' 1877

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

'STUDY OF A NUDE BOY'

Christen Købke - 1810-1848

Christen Schiellerup Købke (26 May 1810 – 7 February 1848), Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete.
Købke, a national romantic, painted portraits, landscapes and architectural paintings.
Most of Købke’s portraits show friends, family members and fellow artists.
He found most of his motifs in his immediate surroundings.
Now he is recognized internationally for his well composed and harmonic paintings, for their coloristic qualities and for his sense of the everyday life. But in his lifetime he was almost forgotten, especially because of his early death and limited production.
Despite his talent and the praise of various contemporaries, Købke had never been inundated with commissions.
Købke is recognized today as one of the most talented among Denmark’s Golden Age painters and the most internationally renowned Danish painter of his generation.
His works are in the collections of not only Danish museums but also such international museums as the J. Paul Getty Museum

'BELLE ACADEMIE JEUNE HOMME NU'

'AKT  MIT  BOGEN'

Hermann Moest, 1868 -1945

'NUDE  EPHEBE  IN  HEROIC  POSE'

Georg von Hoesslin (1851-1923)

George (Georg) von Hoesslin (1851-1923) is an interesting figure in art in view of his origins and study. German by heritage, but born in Hungary and educated in the United States, after his family emigrated to North America in 1856.

In 1870 he wanted to study art and returned to Europe (München) where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In München, (Munich), he trained under Wilhelm Lindenschmit (1829 -1 895), a German history painter. He traveled to Rome and Venice for additional studies later on.

In 1880 he returned to Boston, Mass.

He made return trips to München after his return to America.

His paintings are displayed in Museums in Boston (Museum of Fine Art) and in Europe.

This drawing is not signed but has von Hoesslin's estate stamp on the reverse and came from his estate (Nachlass George Von Hoesslin stamp on the reverse).

The drawing is probably a preparatory study for an historical painting, part of his oeuvre of portraits and historical paintings.

© Copyright Zac Sawyer 2015

Zac's Interpretation of

'NUDE  EPHEBE  IN  HEROIC  POSE'

'MORNING  SWIM'





'FLUTEBOY'

Joseph Uhl  -  (1877-1945)



'SOMMERWONNE' - (SUMMER  JOY)

Joseph Uhl  -  (1877-1945)

'AKTSTUDIE - JUNGER KNABE MIT FLÖTE'
(Nude Study - Young Boy with Flute)

Alois Kasimir





'Перетягивание каната'
(PERKANAT - TUG OF WAR)

Никола́й Петро́вич Богда́нов-Бе́льский  (1868-1945) - (Nikolay Bogdanov-Belski)





'После ванны'
'NACH DEM BADE' (GOING FOR A SWIM)

Никола́й Петро́вич Богда́нов-Бе́льский  (1868-1945) - (Nikolay Bogdanov-Belski)




'KNABE AKT MIT EINEM SCHWERT'
(NUDE BOY WITH A SWORD'

Franz Stuck (1863-1928)

'KNABENAKT IM ATELIER'

(Nude Boy in Studio)

William Frederick George Pape (1859-1920)

William Pape (1859-1920) was a pupil of Herman Prell in Berlin, J. Lerebver and Benjamin Constant in Paris during the latter part of the 19th century.

He spent his career as an historical painter and illustrator.




'EL NIÑO DE LA BOLA' - (NUDE BOY WITH A BALL)

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923)





ÑINOS EN LA PLAYA' - (BOYS ON THE BEACH)

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923)





'BAÑO'

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923)





'BOYS ON THE BEACH'

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923)