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Oene Romkes de Jongh was a 19th century Dutch landscape painter. He is known for his detailed urban views. He painted mainly landscapes of Amsterdam and domestic scenes around Lake Eijsselmer. De Jongh was particularly influenced by Cornelis Springer.
Eberhard Viegener was a German expressionist painter, decorator, and printmaker.
In the 1930s his expressionist works were deemed "degenerate," and during the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign a considerable number of them were removed from state collections and destroyed.
Later Figener shifted abruptly from the expressionist style to the style of New Objectivity, or Neue Sachlichkeit. He began to paint, in particular, architectural still lifes with ceramic objects.
Eberhard Figener was the brother of the painter and sculptor Fritz Figener.
Heinrich Siepmann was a painter and belonged to the second generation of Constructivism.
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.
Andrzej Cisowski is a Polish multimedia artist and graphic artist.
Cisowski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and was initially associated with the Neue Wilde movement (Neo-Fauvism). Over time he developed his own individual style on the border of figurative painting and new expression. The artist also created paintings based on old photographs.
Fritz Winter was a German painter of the postwar period best known for his abstract works in the Art Informel style.
Richard Bloos was born in Brühl in 1878 and attended the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where he studied under Peter Janssen, Willy Sparrow and Forberg. After a stay in Paris from 1906 to 1914, Bloos lived until his death in Düsseldorf in 1957. He participated in the exhibitions of the Münchner Sezession and the salon of the Société National des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The artist’s preferred motifs are lively figure scenes.
Horatio McCulloch was a Scottish landscape painter.
Abraham Hulk the Younger was an Anglo-Dutch landscape painter, son of the famous marinist Abraham Hulk the Elder.
Ulrich Leman is a German artist of "Rhenish Expressionism.
He studied at the Düsseldorf Academy and joined the group of progressive artists "Das Junge Rheinland". In the late 1920s, Leman made his first trip to Mallorca and decided to stay there. The beauties of this Spanish island inspired him to create many paintings with views of nature, depicting the characters of the local people.
Friedrich Vordemberge, also known as Friedel Vordemberge, was a German painter, scenographer and teacher.
Friedrich studied painting at the Weimar Art Academy, the Berlin Art Academy and the Düsseldorf Art Academy, with breaks to participate in the First World War. He was friends with Erich Maria Remarque and in 1915 belonged to the Romantic circle that Remarque depicted in his youthful novel Traumbude. In 1921 Vordemberge became stage designer and deputy director of the Rheinische Land Theater in Düren, and in 1923 in Worpswede and Bremen. Later he settled in Cologne and founded the Cologne Artists' Exhibition Association (Ausstellungsgemeinschaft Kölner Maler), became a member of the German Artists' Association and took part in its big annual exhibition in 1929 with an oil painting "Notre Dame de Paris".
Vordemberge became known for his intensely colored oil paintings, mostly representational or somewhat reduced to basic geometric forms; he also became a master of atmospheric watercolors and drawings. His main artistic themes are city, landscape, sea, and still life.
Returning to Cologne after the war, he organized the Rhenish artists' community "Cologne 1945". In 1947 he was appointed to the newly opened Cologne School of Art, and in 1959 he became its director. For many years he continued to teach painting at the Cologne School of Art and Design.
Günther Uecker is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.
Jules Louis Dupré was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of its tragic and dramatic aspects.