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Hans Meyer-Kassel was a German and American landscape painter, illustrator, and draftsman.
He received a classical art education in Munich and served as a war painter during World War I. Later as a portrait painter he depicted numerous European officials on commission.
In 1922 Meyer-Kassel emigrated to the USA and in time became a revered painter in that country. He painted views of New York City and city life, seascapes, still lifes, and later portraits of famous people. Four portraits of Nevada governors, where he lived his last years, adorn the walls of the state capitol building.
Hans Meyer-Kassel was a German and American landscape painter, illustrator, and draftsman.
He received a classical art education in Munich and served as a war painter during World War I. Later as a portrait painter he depicted numerous European officials on commission.
In 1922 Meyer-Kassel emigrated to the USA and in time became a revered painter in that country. He painted views of New York City and city life, seascapes, still lifes, and later portraits of famous people. Four portraits of Nevada governors, where he lived his last years, adorn the walls of the state capitol building.
Frans Hogenberg was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. He is known for portraits and topographical views as well as historical allegories. He also produced scenes of contemporary historical events. Hogenberg was the author of graphic works, engravings of city views and maps of the first four volumes of the six-volume atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Description and drawings of the most famous cities in the world), published in 1570 by the Flemish geographer Abraham Ortelius. Hogenberg's engravings are an invaluable source of information about urban development in medieval Europe.
Georg Braun was a German topographical geographer, cartographer and publisher.
Braun was the editor-in-chief of the Civitates orbis terrarum, a groundbreaking atlas of cities, one of the major cartographic achievements of the 16th century. It was the first comprehensive and detailed atlas, with plans of the world's famous cities and bird's-eye views, and became one of the best-selling works of the time.
The book was prepared by Georg Braun in collaboration with the Flemish engraver and cartographer Frans Hoogenberg. Braun, as editor-in-chief, acquired tables, hired artists, and wrote the texts. They drew on existing maps as well as maps based on drawings by the Antwerp artist Joris Hofnagel and his son Jacob. Other authors include Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569), Jacob van Deventer (c. 1505-1575), and more than a hundred other artists and engravers.
Andreas Schön is a German painter, an important representative of figurative painting. Andreas Schön is a pupil of Gerhard Richter.
Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, known as the Kasseler Tischbein, was one of the most respected European painters in the 18th century and an important member of the Tischbein family of German painters, which spanned three generations.
His work consisted primarily of portraits of the nobility, mythological scenes, and historical paintings. For his mythology paintings his models were mostly members of the upper nobility.
Hartmut Böhm was a German object artist.
