# Overbeck

Author: Atkinson, J. Beavington, 1822-1886

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25073

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Overbeck+Atkinson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Birth and Parentage--Early Days in Lübeck--The Artist's learned and religious Ancestry--His Father Doctor of Laws and Burgomaster--Chart of the Family--Creed for a Purist Painter--Young Overbeck leaves Lübeck for Vienna: his Studies in the Academy--Decadence of Art in the Austrian Capital--Rise of the German Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood--Conflict between the Old Party and the New--Overbeck and his Friends expelled from the Academy--He resolves to make Christian Art the Vocation of his Life--Leaves Vienna for Rome Page 1

## Chapters

- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/overbeck-25073/chapters/1/index.md)