Tag: August Theodor Schoefft

Circle of August Theodor Schoefft; Crossing the Tigris 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #58

Jun 22, 2020

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Zaidan Art Blog

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The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf. August Theodor Schoefft (Hungarian, 1809-1888) was the son of a local portrait painter August Theodor Schoefft, born to German parents who…