literatur: deutsches kaiserreich
Arthur Kampf was a German painter. He was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Kampf's work is most strongly associated with the genre of traditional history painting, though throughout his lifetime he explored styles influenced by Impressionism and Art Nouveau. He was also celebrated for large scale portrait work and in particular children's portraiture. Kampf also worked extensively as an illustrator, contributing drawings to volumes by Shakespeare (1925), R. Herzog, History of Prussia (1913) and J.W. Goethe, Faust (1925). Kampf's artwork post World War II largely focused on religious themes.
Friedrich Geselschap was a German historical painter who worked in the Classical style. He studied painting at the academies of fine arts in Dresden and Düsseldorf with Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Heinrich Mücke and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow.
The Romantic-religious aspects of the Nazarenes had little influence on Gezielschap's artistic development. Rather, it was guided by their neo-classical ideas. It was the ancient models and his fascination with the Italian Renaissance masters, above all Raphael, that made Friedrich Gesellschap a proponent of idealism.
