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Paul Gavarni, real name Hippolyte Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier, was a French painter, cartoonist, illustrator, and a prominent 19th-century satirist.
Beginning his career as an assistant engineer, he showed signs of his future genius in the late 1820s as a fashion designer and illustrator. His talent for caricature and satirical art, however, led him to the editorship of Les Gens du Monde in 1835. Paul Gavarni, one of the smartest caricaturists, had no equal in drawing, capturing the follies and foibles of his time. He developed close friendships with many other leading artists and contemporary writers, including Honoré Balzac, Charles Dickens and William Maykpis Thackeray. His work was collected by Queen Victoria, as well as by Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh.
Gavarnie's long association with the popular magazine Le Charivari, with which Dumier and other cartoonists of the time also collaborated, was the pinnacle of his career. Working continuously from 1838 to 1844, he produced more than 900 engravings illustrating secular Parisian life with great wit, charm, and satire. He also illustrated the novels of Balzac and Eugène Sue and the short stories of Hoffmann. In addition to satirical works, Gavarni also distinguished himself in portraiture and sketches.
But it was not only in social circles that Gavarni revolved, where he was admired. In 1847 he spent a year in London, painting the inhabitants of the poor quarters around Whitechapel and producing some of his best work there.
Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School.[citation needed] His brother, Oswald, was also a well known landscape painter. Together, based on their initials, they were known as the "Alpha and Omega" of landscape painters.
Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst was a German genre painter and drawing teacher.
August Weber was a German landscape painter and lithographer of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
In the mid-19th century he became a member of the Malkasten association of progressive artists (Paintbox).
In addition to landscape painting, August Weber also created watercolors and lithographs.
Robert Beyschlag was a German painter of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, famous for his paintings of mythological subjects and portraits of women.
Beyschlag early in his career created genre paintings depicting the medieval era, but later turned his attention to mythology, a prime example of which is the oft-repeated depiction of Psyche in his works. Inspired by Romanticism, the artist also created pastoral subjects with peasant women and shepherdesses. His work was characterized by optimism, theatricalization and idealization of characters, as well as rich colorism. He also created frescoes for the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, depicting scenes from the history of the Crusades.
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince was an important French etcher and painter.
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was a celebrated French painter, renowned for her skill in portrait painting during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Born in Paris in 1755, Vigee Le Brun's artistic talent was evident from a young age, leading her to become one of the most successful female artists of her time. Her father, a portraitist himself, was a significant influence on her early artistic development.
Vigee Le Brun is perhaps best known for her association with Queen Marie Antoinette. She painted more than 30 portraits of the queen, capturing her in a light that combined personal intimacy with the regal dignity required of royal portraiture. Her ability to portray her subjects with both elegance and psychological depth won her acclaim and patronage from the highest ranks of society across Europe.
Her career spanned one of Europe's most turbulent periods, including the French Revolution, which forced her into exile. During her years abroad, she lived and worked in major cultural centers such as Rome, Vienna, and St. Petersburg, further cementing her reputation among European aristocracy.
Vigee Le Brun's works are displayed in prestigious museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre in Paris. Her legacy is not only in her portraits but also in her memoirs, which provide a vivid account of the cultural atmosphere of her time and her encounters with various historical figures.
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Karl Friedrich Lessing was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a Romantic painter, a representative of the Düsseldorf School of painting.
Lessing began his career with melancholic-romantic landscapes and paintings on literary subjects. He later gained popularity as a landscape painter. Reproductions of his works were widely printed in German magazines of the XIX century. Later Lessing switched to historical subjects, creating historical paintings, as well as frescoes.
Lessing was a member of various art societies and academies, both German and foreign.
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany. First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel.
His popularity in his native country, owing especially to his history paintings, was such that few of his major paintings left Germany, as many were quickly acquired by museums in Berlin. Menzel's graphic work (and especially his drawings) were more widely disseminated; these, along with informal paintings not initially intended for display, have largely accounted for his posthumous reputation.
Ludvig Munthe was a Norwegian-born, German landscape painter.
Munthe is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. A thoroughly realistic treatment characterizes his paintings, of which autumn and winter scenes in stormy or gloomy weather, forest and coast views form the prevailing subjects.
Eilert Adelsteen Normann was a Norwegian painter who worked in Berlin. He was a noted painter of landscapes of Norway. Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, where he painted The Scream. Normann's fjord paintings are credited with making the Norwegian fjords a more popular tourist destination.
Heinrich Rudolf Zille was a German illustrator, caricaturist, lithographer and photographer.
Heinrich Rudolf Zille was a German illustrator, caricaturist, lithographer and photographer.
Heinrich Rudolf Zille was a German illustrator, caricaturist, lithographer and photographer.
Heinrich Rudolf Zille was a German illustrator, caricaturist, lithographer and photographer.
