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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.
Karl Lorenz Rettich, a German landscape artist and draftsman, was deeply influenced by the Baltic Sea region where he grew up. Despite studying law initially, Rettich pursued landscape painting under the guidance of Adolf Heinrich Lier and later studied at the Düsseldorf and Weimar schools of painting. He undertook study trips to Norway, Sweden, and Italy. Rettich lived in various cities, including Dresden, Munich, and Lübeck, eventually settling in Graal-Müritz. He earned a living by selling postcards featuring his landscape paintings and received awards for his work.
