Talk:Peter Fendi

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Did you know... that Austrian court painter Peter Fendi, known for his erotic paintings, was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period?

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Childhood talent?[edit]

"Fendi demonstrated a talent for drawing from childhood"

Every second kid out there does have a talent for drawing. Nothing really spectacular and not worth mentioning.

Not an erotic artist?[edit]

Twice, anonymous users have removed or contradicted references to Peter Fendi as an erotic artist. Since there are several citations for Peter Fendi being an erotic artist, I'm wondering what the debate is about. Is there actually reason to believe that the erotic artwork has been mis-attributed to him? And if so, can anyone provide references to back that up? — λ 04:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Returning to this topic - I wonder if the current two pictures on the article are the right choice. Certainly, Fendi produced erotic art and there is no reason we should not show some of that. But to represent him only by his erotic art is quite misleading - he was, and is, prominent in other genres too. Does anyone have any non-erotic Fendi images we could use? Barnabypage (talk) 21:27, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is accepted by art experts that Peter Fendi was not an erotic artist. There is a series of "watercolours" (they are actually lithographs) circulating around the internet that were printed 70 years after Fendi's death that were said to be in the style of Peter Fendi (I don't even think the style is that similar) and have since been wrongly attributed to him. We know this series is not by Fendi, and aside from this series, I can't think of any other erotic works which have been attributed to him. It is this series alone that gives Fendi his reputation as an erotic artist. Buddha83 (talk) 10:33, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery[edit]

This has been removed "per WP:NOTREPOSITORY" presumably on the basis of Fendi's works being "mere collections of photographs or media files" (If the argument for its inclusion or exclusion must be a link then Wikipedia:IG#Image_galleries would be a better one.) We quite often supplement articles on art or artists with a small gallery illustrating a selection of works (for example Rembrandt, Henry Moore, Robert Peake the Elder, Flagellation of Christ, Caspar David Friedrich) - this is not a "mere collection" but an aid to understanding the subject of the article. Yomangani ^talk 10:29, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]