Usage Note
Aktmalerei is the painting of the unclothed human figure (Akt). It has been central to academic art training and was a key genre from the Renaissance onward. Feminine noun.
Examples
"An der Akademie war die Aktmalerei nach dem Lebendmodell ein Pflichtfach."
Natural Translation
At the academy, nude painting from life was a compulsory subject.
Literal Translation
At the academy was the nude-painting after the live model a compulsory-subject.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
- Altarbild altarpiece
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