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Antoine François Louis van Engelen was a Belgian painter of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Adolf Karel Maximiliaan Engel was a Belgian landscape painter who came from an old Swedish family.
Engel was a master of rustic scenes and created beautiful natural landscapes with cows and pastorals. His most famous painting is Landscape with Cattle.
Adolphe Engel left behind a large collection of materials for the study of the scenic regions of Belgium. Unfortunately, the life of this talented artist did not last long. He fell into depression and committed suicide at a very young age.
Most of Adolphe Engel's works are in private collections.
Karl Marx, full name Karl Heinrich Marx, was a German philosopher, sociologist, historian and economist, social activist, and journalist. One of the most significant political figures in the world, his works have had a great influence on the course of human history.
Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a large Jewish family of rabbinic dynasty, but his father and Karl himself were baptized. The young Karl received a liberal arts education at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin and was actively involved in the turbulent political life of Germany and France in the 19th century. For his political activities in 1849 he was expelled from Germany, moved with his family to Paris and then to London, where he lived and worked until the end of his life.
In 1844 he met the German socialist Friedrich Engels, who became his friend and collaborator for the rest of his life. Together they had already published the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), the most famous pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. Karl Marx was also the author of the movement's most important book, Das Kapital (Capital). These and other writings of Marx and Engels formed the basis of the system of views and beliefs known as Marxism.
Marx examined the very different versions of socialism that existed in the early nineteenth century and combined them into a doctrine that remained the dominant version of socialism for half a century after his death. His emphasis on the influence of economic structure on historical development was of enduring importance.
