Aktmodell
life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
noun AKT-mo-del Rare
Usage Note
Aktmodell is a person who poses unclothed for artists in a life-drawing or painting class. Working from an Aktmodell is a central method of academic figure training. Neutral noun.
Examples
"Das Aktmodell hielt die Pose zwanzig Minuten lang ohne Bewegung."
Natural Translation
The life model held the pose for twenty minutes without moving.
Literal Translation
The life-model held the pose twenty minutes long without movement.
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
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
- Altarbild altarpiece
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