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Ernst Karl Georg Zimmermann was a German painter of the last third of the 19th century. He is known as a genre painter.
Ernst Zimmermann received his first painting lessons from his father, the painter Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann. Early in his career, he produced humorous genre paintings before moving on to create large works, including the famous works The Adoration of the Shepherds, Christ and the Fishermen, and Christ the Comforter. Zimmermann was a royal professor and honorary member of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.
Otto Dill was a German painter. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
