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Andreas Schmitten is a German painter and sculptor living and working between Düsseldorf and Neuss, Germany.
The artist situates his interdisciplinary and diverse work between drawing, sculpture and installation, using attention-grabbing techniques from religion, theater and commodities. He is interested in issues related to the human being and its history. Andreas Schmitten is known for his extensive and highly complex installations in which figures, objects and interiors are used to create fantastic, surreal visual worlds. Lacquered surfaces, pale colors, and mannered, elegant forms characterize his perfectly executed works, which often transform rooms into unreal and fairytale-like settings.
Schmitten's work can currently be seen in the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal and the Villa Ludwig in Aachen. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).
Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
Heinrich Bürkel was a German artist of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, representative of the Biedermeier style.
Heinrich Bürkel specialized in genre and landscape paintings, especially winter landscapes. He often used Staffage and depicted animals. His work showed the influence of the old Dutch and Italian masters. Bürkel enjoyed great popularity, his paintings were actively acquired for private collections, including in America. The master painted about 1000 paintings and created about 6000 drawings.
