Dominique Lang 44 paintings HD

Dominique Lang (18741919) is considered to be Luxembourg s most important Impressionist painter. He painted both portraits and landscapes although he was employed as a highschool teacher. After completing his studies in 1901, he embarked on a PreRaphaelite phase when he painted the Baptism of Christ, a fresco in the church at Junglinster followed by paintings for the stations of the cross in the new church at Dudelange. Travelling on a State grant, he then spent four months studying art in Florence and Rome. Back in Dudelange, he faced not just financial problems but negative criticism of his paintings from the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg. He began to suffer from dreadful headaches, leading him into depression. His art was influenced by his reading Ruskin, Schopenhauer and Spengler, leading him into a Symbolist period where his work resembled that of the English PreRaphaelites who reacted against mechanisation by evoking the legends of the Middle Ages. His paintings La jeune fille et la mor