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Johann Peter Hasenclever was a German painter of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, a representative of the Düsseldorf school of art, who is considered one of the founders of German genre painting.
Hasenclever began his work by interpreting biblical, mythological and romantic subjects, but eventually found his calling in humorous scenes from bourgeois life, especially Pyrenean towns and cities. Among his famous works are "The Amusing Examination," "The Reading Room," and "The Trial of Wine," distributed in engravings and lithographs.
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Martersteig was a German historical and genre painter and drawing teacher. From 1828 to 1834 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Art under Ludwig Richter. Afterwards he spent four years at the academy in Dusseldorf and was a pupil of Carl Ferdinand Sohn, Theodor Hildebrandt and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow.
Friedrich Martersteig was a member and professor of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
Alexander Maximilian Seitz was a German historical painter, son of engraver Johann Baptist Seitz and father of Ludwig Seitz. He was already a pupil of Peter von Cornelius and Heinrich Maria von Hess. In 1835 Seitz travelled with Cornelius to Rome, where he joined the Nazarenes and was particularly close to Friedrich Overbeck.
Felix Schlesinger was a German painter and illustrator. He studied figurative painting in Antwerp and in 1850 and 1851 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts.
Felix Schlesinger is the author of genre paintings and portraits. One of the most famous painters of children's themes, which was very popular all over the world in the 19th century.
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven a Belgian painter, was born at Warneton in West Flanders. He was a painter, a sculptor, an etcher, an engraver, and a lithographer of animals, animated landscapes, and portraits.
Christian Wilhelm Sell, also Christian Sell the Younger, was a German battle and military painter of the Düsseldorf School.
Like his father, Christian Sell the Elder, he created numerous battle and war depictions, especially from the Franco-Prussian War.
Carl Friedrich Deiker was a German animal painter.
He depicted with particular interest the wild animals of Germany - deer and wild boar; battles between male deer, broods of wild piglets escaping from hunters. Some of his canvases are devoted to birds of prey - falcons, hawks as well as grouse, grouse; the life of foxes, hares and other animals and birds. The painter also illustrated animal scenes in art magazines and hunting literature.
Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen was a Dutch landscape painter and teacher.
Bakhuyzen studied at The Hague Academy of Art. He is known for his romantic pastoral scenes, especially paintings of livestock, with detailed landscapes.
In 1822 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in Amsterdam and a member of the board of the Academy of Arts in The Hague. He was later elected director of the Hague Academy. Hendrikus Bakhuyzen made a significant contribution to the Romantic period in Dutch art through his work and activities, raising many talented students and followers who founded the artistic movement known as the Hague School.
His children were also very talented: son Julius van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1835-1925) became a renowned landscape painter; daughter Gerardine Jacob van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1826-1895) became a still life painter; son Henrik Gerard van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1838-1923) became a prominent astronomer, member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and director of the Leiden Observatory; son Ernest-Fredrich van de Sande Bakhuyzen was also an astronomer at the Leiden Observatory.
Carl Spitzweg was a German romanticist painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.
Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School.[citation needed] His brother, Oswald, was also a well known landscape painter. Together, based on their initials, they were known as the "Alpha and Omega" of landscape painters.
Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).
Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).
Jakob Alt was an Austrian landscape painter, graphic artist and lithographer. He studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
He travelled extensively through the Austrian Alps and the Danube regions, painting landscapes. For 5 years he lived and worked in Italy. During his travels the artist also collected an extensive herbarium, which is now preserved in the Provincial Museum of Lower Austria.
Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School.[citation needed] His brother, Oswald, was also a well known landscape painter. Together, based on their initials, they were known as the "Alpha and Omega" of landscape painters.
Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School.[citation needed] His brother, Oswald, was also a well known landscape painter. Together, based on their initials, they were known as the "Alpha and Omega" of landscape painters.