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Wilhelm Leibl, Peasants in Conversation / The Village Politicians [Bauern im Gespräch / Die Dorfpolitiker] (1877)
Wilhelm Leibl (1844-1900) originally planned to title this painting Latest News. As he wrote....
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Wilhelm Leibl, Three Women in Church [Drei Frauen in der Kirche] (1882)
This painting by Wilhelm Leibl (1844-1900) shows the artist at the peak of his creative talent; it is a masterpiece in terms of both composition and execution. Painted in oil on mahogany, it is a....
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Wilhelm Leibl, Peasant Boy [Bauernjunge] (1875)
Peasant Boy dates from a period in Wilhelm Leibl’s career that precedes his attainment of a style easily identifiable as realism. In 1869 – not long before this painting was conceived – Leibl....
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Fritz von Uhde, Bavarian Drummers [Bayrische Trommler] (1883)
This painting by Fritz von Uhde (1848-1911), also titled Drum Practice, was one of the artist’s first naturalistic scenes. Uhde grew up in the Kingdom of Saxony, where his father was a senior....
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Fritz von Uhde, Little Heathland Princess [Heideprinzeßchen] (1889)
Fritz von Uhde (1848-1911) decided to paint this little girl on a large canvas measuring 140 x 111 centimeters. Seen close up and in full length, the girl projects a kind of self-confidence that....
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Max Liebermann, The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple [Der zwölfjährige Jesus im Tempel] (1879)
In its original form, this painting by Max Liebermann (1847-1935) produced the greatest art scandal of the Bismarckian era. The trouble began during Munich’s First International Art Exhibition in....
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Max Liebermann, The Net-Menders [Die Netzflickerinnen] (1887-89)
By the late 1880s, Max Liebermann (1847-1935) was accustomed to being attacked by art critics for the social sympathies he had been displaying for years. His first naturalist paintings from the 1870s,....
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Hans von Marées, Oarsmen [Ruderer] (1873)
Hans von Marées (1837-87), like Arnold Böcklin and all of their fellow “German-Romans,” spent much of his career in Italy. He went back to Germany in 1871-73 and experienced the feverish “founding....
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Arnold Böcklin, Self-Portrait with Death playing the Fiddle [Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod] (1872)
Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) was best known for his unreal, dreamlike scenes, which anticipated aspects of Surrealism while drawing heavily on classical mythology. Böcklin left his native Switzerland....
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Arnold Böcklin, Island of the Dead [Die Toteninsel] (1883)
Island of the Dead, arguably the most widely recognized of Arnold Böcklin’s (1827-1901) paintings, appeared in multiple versions. Perhaps as a way to maximize his audience, Böcklin made this....
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