Karl Wilhelm Gentz (1822 - 1890)

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Karl Wilhelm Gentz

Karl Wilhelm Gentz was a German painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a successful master who specialized in historical and ethnographic-genre painting with orientalist themes.

Gentz traveled to Morocco, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and other eastern regions, which influenced his style and fascination with Orientalism. The artist reproduced picturesque scenes, conveying the character of the area and its inhabitants with impressive beauty and truthfulness. He also created paintings with biblical and religious content, adhering to the realist trend. In the last years of his life, Gentz was a professor of painting and a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Date and place of birt:9 december 1822, Neuruppin, Germany
Date and place of death:23 august 1890, Berlin, Germany
Nationality:Germany
Period of activity: XIX century
Specialization:Artist, Genre painter, Painter
Genre:Genre art, History painting
Art style:Orientalism

Creators Germany

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Gottfried Wals (1595 - 1638)
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Hermann Schmidtmann (1869 - 1936)
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Richard Hess (1937 - 2017)
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Walter Schott (1861 - 1938)
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Shaoxiang Wu (1957)
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Aris Kalaizis (1966)
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Joseph Joachim von Schnizer (1792 - 1870)
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Joern Pfab (1925 - 1986)
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Louis Oppenheim (1879 - 1936)
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Bernd and Hilla Becher ()
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Gottfried Brockmann (1903 - 1983)
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Kuno Gonschior (1933 - 2010)
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Herbert Hirche (1910 - 2002)
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Ludwig Gies (1887 - 1966)
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Peppi Bottrop (1986)
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Creators Orientalism

Eugène Baugniès (1842 - 1891)
Eugène Baugniès
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Theodoros Vryzakis (1814 - 1878)
Theodoros Vryzakis
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George Francklin Atkinson (1822 - 1859)
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Jan Ciągliński (1858 - 1912)
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Alphonse Birck (1859 - 1944)
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Alf Bachmann (1863 - 1956)
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1863 - 1956
Ludwig Deutsch (1855 - 1935)
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1855 - 1935
Luigi Brignoli (1881 - 1952)
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1881 - 1952
Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (1839 - 1915)
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Eugène Deshayes (1862 - 1939)
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1862 - 1939
Karl Krazeisen (1794 - 1878)
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1794 - 1878
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803 - 1860)
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
1803 - 1860
Constant Louche (1880 - 1965)
Constant Louche
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Ernst Berger (1857 - 1919)
Ernst Berger
1857 - 1919
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842 - 1923)
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ
1842 - 1923
Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin (1842 - 1904)
Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin
1842 - 1904
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