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Max Clarenbach was a German painter of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, landscape painter, genre painter and teacher and is considered one of the most important representatives of Rhenish painting of his time.
Max Clarenbach made study trips to Italy and Holland early in his career, where he formed his genre preferences and became a landscape painter. His work reflected the influence of the Hague School and the French Barbizonians. The artist skillfully depicted winter scenes and the nature of western Germany. He also painted sports and street scenes.
Clarenbach was one of the organizers of the Düsseldorf Sonderbund and taught at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art.


















Anton Hiller was a Bavarian sculptor and painter. He grew up in a Catholic farming family in Sigmaringendorf, Hohenzollern. Hiller then studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Hermann Hahn (1868–1945), graduating in 1923 and worked later as a freelance sculptor in Munich from 1923, executing commissions for the Bavarian State Gallery and the Municipal Gallery.
From 1946 to 1961, Hiller served as a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, becoming one of the leading representatives of the Munich School of Sculpture in the third quarter of the 20th century. Hiller was a member of the German Artists' Association from 1952 to 1960.




































































