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Hans Thoma was a German painter.
In spite of his studies under various masters, his art has little in common with modern ideas, and is formed partly by his early impressions of the simple idyllic life of his native district, partly by his sympathy with the early German masters, particularly with Albrecht Altdorfer and Lucas Cranach the Elder. In his love of the details of nature, in his precise drawing of outline, and in his predilection for local coloring, he has distinct affinities with the Pre-Raphaelites.
Charles Johann Palmié was a German painter, one of the pioneers of German Modernism and Neo-Impressionism.
He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, traveled and worked extensively, specializing in landscapes. In 1901 Palmie and his artist wife opened an artists' hotel in Kalmunz, Germany. Soon an entire colony of artists formed there, numbering up to forty people, many of whom lived there permanently. After Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter visited the hotel in the summer of 1903, the Kalmunz colony became the talk of the art world.
Impressed by the works of Claude Monet, the artist traveled to France in 1905, where a meeting with the master himself played a decisive role in the further direction of Palmie's work. In France, he spent much time studying Neo-Impressionism, pointillism and monochrome painting, and created many landscapes.
In 1909 Palmie, along with Vasily Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter and others, became one of the founders of the Association of New Artists of Munich (Neue Künstlervereinigung München or NKVM), an expressionist art group in Munich. This group later evolved into Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), but without Palmie's participation.
Franz Seraph Lenbach was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society, he was often referred to as the "Malerfürst" (Painter Prince).
Ernst Meyer was a Danish genre painter of Jewish origin. He studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts.
Ernst Meyer travelled extensively, living for a time in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. It was the colourful street life of Rome that first inspired him to create genre scenes.
Anton Seitz was a German painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter-genre painter, a representative of the Munich School of painting.
Seitz trained at the Nuremberg Art School in engraving, but after moving to Munich, he concentrated on domestic painting. His paintings depicted either individual characteristic figures or scenes with several actors. His subjects the artist mainly found in the everyday life of "little people".
In 1876 Seitz became a member of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, already considered a leading master of Munich painting.