Egon Arnold Alexis Freiherr von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel (February 6, 1903 in The Hague – October 14, 1994 in Zurich ) was a German - Swiss painter , author , philosopher and creator of the Egon von Vietinghoff Foundation . He reconstructed the lost painting techniques of the Old Masters , and created some 2,700 paintings.
31-652: Vietinghoff is a surname. People with that name include: Egon von Vietinghoff (1903-1994), German-Swiss painter, author and philosopher, son of Jeanne Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887-1952), German general of the Wehrmacht during World War II Jeanne de Vietinghoff (1875-1926), Belgian writer, mother of Egon See also [ edit ] Baron Boris Vietinghoff-Scheel ( c. 1829 -1901), Russian composer All pages with titles containing Vietinghoff [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
62-733: A Russian subject, he became a Swiss citizen in 1922, together with his parents and his brother. From 1922 to 1937 he lived in Germany ( Munich ), Italy (on the isle of Capri ), France (again in Paris), Spain (on the isle of Majorca ), Argentina ( Buenos Aires ), and Uruguay (near Atlántida ). In 1937 he settled down in Switzerland, first in Zollikon and then in Zurich, and lived there until his death in 1994. Vietinghoff can be seen to be
93-437: A chemical origin. He therefore produced himself the colors he needed. Even the necessary solvents and binders were prepared by him. Usually at least half of his time went into this manual preparation before he could start to paint. Another essential contribution to the natural effect, the convincing freshness, and the depth of color of his paintings is made by the main use of natural substances which were as pure as possible for
124-885: A painter. His pictures convey naturalness and – without showy perspective – attract attention due to their plasticity, inner luminosity and masterly placed highlights. Oil An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water ) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active . Most oils are unsaturated lipids that are liquid at room temperature. The general definition of oil includes classes of chemical compounds that may be otherwise unrelated in structure, properties, and uses. Oils may be animal , vegetable , or petrochemical in origin, and may be volatile or non-volatile. They are used for food (e.g., olive oil ), fuel (e.g., heating oil ), medical purposes (e.g., mineral oil ), lubrication (e.g. motor oil ), and
155-408: A philosophical and mystical concept, he understood imagination in the sense of creative ability as the possibility of the human spirit to perceive transcendently . In artistic intensification, intuition – a sort of "seventh sense" – leads to inspiration and uses imagination as an organ of perception of the irrational , absolute reality which we can only divine temporarily with our limited view of
186-447: A priming coat on top of the grounding. The immense work of Egon von Vietinghoff includes all classical motifs: flowers, still lifes , landscapes, portraits , nudes, and figural scenes. Due to the large demand, more than half of his total work consists of fruit still lifes. The beholder's normal distance to the picture procures balanced representation and self-contained calm of the object. Without losing himself in details, Vietinghoff leads
217-409: A real European when one considers his ancestors, his four wives who are natives of Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria , and in particular his fluency in many European languages, his extensive knowledge of European literature, all of which combined to form a truly European mentality. Egon von Vietinghoff started his career as an artist at age 17 and decided to finally lay down his paint brush at
248-407: A religious medium. It is often considered a spiritually purifying agent and is used for anointing purposes. As a particular example, holy anointing oil has been an important ritual liquid for Judaism and Christianity . Oils have been consumed since ancient times. Oils hold lots of fats and medical properties. A good example is olive oil. Olive oil holds a lot of fats within it which is why it
279-448: Is at the same time the opposite of naturalism / realism. On the one hand Transcendental painting does not copy, and on the other hand it does not invent anything by means of intellectual construction. It looks for the nature of the world and by way of its sensations it reaches metaphysical insights. Thus Vietinghoff found an alternative to the extreme poles of naturalism realism and abstraction or of copy and construction. Departing from
310-537: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Egon von Vietinghoff Egon von Vietinghoff grew up in an artists’ house: his father Conrad von Vietinghoff was a pianist of German-Baltic origin, his mother Jeanne Bricou Vietinghoff , who had Belgian and Dutch ancestors, was a writer of philosophical books. He spent his childhood in France ( Paris ) and Germany ( Wiesbaden ), lived in Switzerland after 1913 ( Geneva , Zuoz and finally Zurich ). Born
341-1202: Is no evidence that NASA has used whale oil. Some oils burn in liquid or aerosol form, generating light , and heat which can be used directly or converted into other forms of energy such as electricity or mechanical work. In order to obtain many fuel oils, crude oil is pumped from the ground and is shipped via oil tanker or a pipeline to an oil refinery . There, it is converted from crude oil to diesel fuel (petrodiesel), ethane (and other short-chain alkanes ), fuel oils (heaviest of commercial fuels, used in ships/furnaces), gasoline (petrol), jet fuel , kerosene , benzene (historically), and liquefied petroleum gas . A 42-US-gallon (35 imp gal; 160 L) barrel of crude oil produces approximately 10 US gallons (8.3 imp gal; 38 L) of diesel, 4 US gallons (3.3 imp gal; 15 L) of jet fuel, 19 US gallons (16 imp gal; 72 L) of gasoline, 7 US gallons (5.8 imp gal; 26 L) of other products, 3 US gallons (2.5 imp gal; 11 L) split between heavy fuel oil and liquified petroleum gases, and 2 US gallons (1.7 imp gal; 7.6 L) of heating oil. The total production of
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#1732775649413372-427: Is not the surface of things he painted but their disintegration into color interactions taking place before his eyes. He reproduced a play of colors in which he submerges, and not a collection of individual narrative observations. Since the play of colors and light emanates from existing things his Transcendental painting is concrete, but inasmuch as it reproduces sensations and not measurable characteristics of things, it
403-644: Is preferred for lubricating clocks, because it does not evaporate, leaving dust, although its use was banned in the US in 1980. It is a long-running myth that spermaceti from whales has still been used in NASA projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probe because of its extremely low freezing temperature. Spermaceti is not actually an oil, but a mixture mostly of wax esters, and there
434-465: Is remote (and was unknown at the time of its discovery), and because it is obtained in the vicinity of rocks, underground traps, and sands. Mineral oil also refers to several specific distillates of crude oil. Several edible vegetable and animal oils, and also fats , are used for various purposes in cooking and food preparation. In particular, many foods are fried in oil much hotter than boiling water. Oils are also used for flavoring and for modifying
465-418: The surname Vietinghoff . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vietinghoff&oldid=852842047 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
496-611: The age of 87 years. All his life he remained an outsider , unerring in his artistic judgment, and content to find his own path in life. Uncompromisingly he followed his artistic conscience, his visual perception and the urge to translate that perception it into painting. During 35 years of autonomous experimenting, from about 1923 until about 1958, Egon von Vietinghoff rediscovered the knowledge of multi-layer mixing of oil and resin not taught in technical handbooks and academies. Several liquid layers of color ( glazes ) can be applied either thick, semi-covering or translucent , one on top of
527-896: The excess grime and creating a layer where new grime could form but be easily washed off in the water as oil is hydrophobic. Fish oils hold the omega-3 fatty acid. This fatty acid helps with inflammation and reduces fat in the bloodstream. Color pigments are easily suspended in oil, making it suitable as a supporting medium for paints . The oldest known extant oil paintings date from 650 AD. Oils are used as coolants in oil cooling , for instance in electric transformers . Heat transfer oils are used both as coolants (see oil cooling ), for heating (e.g. in oil heaters ) and in other applications of heat transfer. Given that they are non-polar, oils do not easily adhere to other substances. This makes them useful as lubricants for various engineering purposes. Mineral oils are more commonly used as machine lubricants than biological oils are. Whale oil
558-487: The eye through the whole spectrum of nuances of color and finds the balance between intensity and gentle peace. Thus, he created the impression of unity and harmonic interaction of object and background, light and shadow, form and color, detail and totality. Technically and mentally, Vietinghoff confronted the Old Masters and learned from them. However, he did not imitate or "quoted" them and found his own "handwriting" as
589-551: The manufacture of many types of paints, plastics, and other materials. Specially prepared oils are used in some religious ceremonies and rituals as purifying agents. First attested in English 1176, the word oil comes from Old French oile , from Latin oleum , which in turn comes from the Greek ἔλαιον ( elaion ), "olive oil, oil" and that from ἐλαία ( elaia ), " olive tree", "olive fruit". The earliest attested forms of
620-412: The modern economy. Crude oil originates from ancient fossilized organic materials , such as zooplankton and algae , which geochemical processes convert into oil. The name "mineral oil" is a misnomer , in that minerals are not the source of the oil—ancient plants and animals are. Mineral oil is organic. However, it is classified as "mineral oil" instead of as "organic oil" because its organic origin
651-600: The objects as color surfaces existing side by side; thus he made himself ready for inspiration. In this "school of pure vision" earlier understandings and assumptions of the materiality of things fade out: they disintegrate into individual color areas leaving the inner dynamics of light and color to be realized as the only facts. The three-dimensional things are temporarily translated by the artist into color planes placed side by side. The observer has no trouble to retransmit them into spatial seeing since human beings are used to seeing concretely. Opened up to experiences differing from
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#1732775649413682-431: The originals of the Old Masters in order to put down his observations experimentally. Thus he discovers not only the technique of mixing oil and resin, but also the spiritual aspect of genuine works of art. In his terminology, the way of looking at things is called "vision", the painting making such visions visible " Transcendental painting ". In order to perceive the world, he opened up to the phenomena of nature. However, it
713-519: The other. Different steps of light reflection bring about depth and color differentiations not possible in the same way by wet-on-wet painting. The plasticity thus obtained does not need any conspicuous construction of perspective . This knowledge is the basis of the color depth and the luminous power typical of Vietinghoff's paintings. His differentiated way of seeing required painting techniques which needed first-class natural substances produced with great care – including some indispensable colors of
744-482: The production of colors and binders. For this he used organic raw materials such as egg , casein , linseed and poppyseed oil , leather glue , wax , gum arabic , cherry tree resin, larch turpentine , fossil resin and different earths. His "Handbuch zur Technik der Malerei" (Handbook of painting technique, in German only and out of print) is a compendium of all his work experiences. Here Vietinghoff brought in
775-448: The sum total of his lifelong observations, defined the translucency of color (a property which have previously gone unnoticed in literature) and tackled the theory of chromatics as seen by the creative artist. Among other things, he gave practical ideas concerning color production, brushwork and picture composition, including examples of pictures of well-known masters and also his own work. Independently of current tendencies, he studied
806-399: The texture of foods (e.g. stir fry ). Cooking oils are derived either from animal fat, as butter , lard and other types, or plant oils from olive , maize , sunflower and many other species. Oils are applied to hair to give it a lustrous look, to prevent tangles and roughness and to stabilize the hair to promote growth. See hair conditioner . Oil has been used throughout history as
837-539: The usual ones needed for the management of day by day life, the world appears as nothing more than the interaction of hues and shadings in a color context, i.e. as symphony of colors or as "drama of color and form", showing the observer an aspect differing from the one he knows already. Egon von Vietinghoff used pencil , pen , crayon , etching -needle, brush . His most expressive paintings are in oil and resin, although he worked also in distemper and made portrait drawings in sanguine . Later on, he used distemper just as
868-533: The way that they are made by an organism, their chemical structure and their limited solubility in water compared to oils. They have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are considerably lacking in oxygen compared to other organic compounds and minerals; they tend to be relatively nonpolar molecules, but may include both polar and nonpolar regions as in the case of phospholipids and steroids. Crude oil, or petroleum , and its refined components, collectively termed petrochemicals , are crucial resources in
899-786: The word are the Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀺 , e-ra-wo and 𐀁𐁉𐀺 , e-rai-wo , written in the Linear B syllabic script. Organic oils are produced in remarkable diversity by plants, animals, and other organisms through natural metabolic processes. Lipid is the scientific term for the fatty acids , steroids and similar chemicals often found in the oils produced by living things, while oil refers to an overall mixture of chemicals. Organic oils may also contain chemicals other than lipids, including proteins , waxes (class of compounds with oil-like properties that are solid at common temperatures) and alkaloids . Lipids can be classified by
930-624: The world. Imagination is therefore no original thought, no speculative dream-world, no willful reconstruction and no alienation of phenomena. Vietinghoff understood painting consistently in the sense of related to color, produced on the basis of nothing else but the visual function of the eyes, but not as abstract in the sense of geometric , plane-based or symbolic . Purely visual means based on purely sensual perception, unaltered by addition, alienation or mental intention – or in other words free of acquired knowledge. In years of meditative visual exercises, he opened himself to unintentional perception of
961-419: Was also used in lighting in ancient Greece and Rome. So people would use it to bulk out food so they would have more energy to burn through the day. Olive oil was also used to clean the body in this time as it would trap the moisture in the skin while pulling the grime to the surface. It was used as an ancient form of unsophisticated soap. It was applied on the skin then scrubbed off with a wooden stick pulling off