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Fuseli

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Fu·sel·i  (fyz-l), Henry 1741-1825.
Swiss-born British painter whose works, including The Nightmare (1781), display a fantastic, macabre quality that influenced the surrealists of the 1920s and 1930s.
Fuseli [ˈfjuːzəlɪ]
n
(Biographies / Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825) M, Britishnational of birth: Swiss, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Henry. original name Johann Heinrich Füssli. 1741-1825, British painter, born in Switzerland. His paintings include Nightmare (1782)


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Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination
Three times a year Artforum looks ahead to the coming season. The ... by Artforum International
On the one hand, I felt that it was too long: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provide Bate with irresistible episodes, yet in the end stories such as those of Fuseli and Berlioz and Scott tend to blur into one another, losing their force.
The Genius of Shakespeare by BRUSTER, DOUGLAS / Renaissance Quarterly
Yet despite her immersion in the burgeoning LA art world, the influences she cites most readily are the paranormal images of English Romantic painter Henry Fuseli, Andre Breton's automatic writing, and offbeat works of fantastic literature like Jan Potocki's 1804 Saragossa Manuscript--the last a transfixing mise en abyme that abounds in supernatural forests, esoteric rites, and gothic horror.
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