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Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden . He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi , later working autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie ...
Moritz Retzsch (1779–1857) Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern (1794–1865) Ottilie Reylaender (1882-1965) Gustav Richter (1823–1884) Hans Richter (1888–1976) Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) Gerhard Richter (born 1932) Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767) August Riedel (1799–1883) Franz Riepenhausen (1786–1831) Johannes Riepenhausen ...
It works by confining the king with a pawn and using a queen to execute the checkmate. Damiano's mate is often arrived at by first sacrificing a rook on the h-file, then checking the king with the queen on the a-file or h-file, and then moving in for the mate. The checkmate was first published by Pedro Damiano in 1512. [11]
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Death playing chess (in Swedish: Döden spelar schack) is a monumental painting in Täby Church located just outside Stockholm, Sweden. It was painted around 1480–1490, by the Swedish medieval painter Albertus Pictor. [1] The painting depicts a man and a skeleton at a chessboard.
He showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. [5] These works show the influence in his work of the Belgian painter Henri Leys, whom Tissot had met in Antwerp earlier that same year. Other influences include the works of the German painters Peter von Cornelius and Moritz Retzsch.
Animation of the Opera Game. The Opera Game was a chess game played in 1858 at an opera house in Paris. The American master Paul Morphy played against two amateurs: the German noble Karl II, Duke of Brunswick, and the French aristocrat Comte Isouard de Vauvenargues.
Checkmate (German: Schachmatt) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Georg Asagaroff and starring Gerda Maurus, Hans Rehmann, and Trude Berliner. [ 1 ] The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexander Ferenczy .