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Konrad Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly was a German painter. He became known as an influential painter of naturalism and German impressionism. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts under Hans Fredrik Gude, who led a master class in landscape painting.
Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly began with a realistic landscape, following the Barbizon school, and was strongly oriented towards the reproduction of atmospheric moods. He often created Impressionist plein air sketches, which can be seen as works in their own right. It was important for him to reproduce sensually tangible impressions of nature in different seasons and create a pole of calm in his paintings, in contrast to the bustle of the ever-expanding metropolitan Berlin of the time.
Since 1883 Müller-Kurzwelli has been a member of the Berlin Artists' Association.
Ferdinand Keller was a German painter of the last third of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a genre and historical painter as well as a teacher.
Keller earned his first major success in 1867 with his painting The Death of King Philip II of Spain. In his monumental works, he celebrated historical, dynastic, and cultural episodes in the history of Germany and Baden. One of his famous works is the painting "Apotheosis of Kaiser Wilhelm I", which was purchased by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Keller's works now grace the halls of theaters including the Baden State Theater and the Semper Opera in Dresden.
