landscape paintings of the 19th/20th century
Carl Johann Grund was a German and Austrian genre painter and portraitist.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and traveled throughout the Alpine countries and Italy. Johann Grund's works are in the collections of the museums of Karlsruhe, Mannheim, and Vienna.
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).
Fredrik Marinus Kruseman was a Dutch painter who specialized in Romantic style landscapes. He received his first drawing lessons from Jan Reekers and attended the Vocational School in Haarlem from 1832 to 1833. That year, he began to study painting with Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom and, in 1835, moved to the Gooi, where he took advanced studies with Jan van Ravenswaay. He also studied briefly with the landscape painter, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. In his output of approximately 300 to 350 paintings, only three still-lifes are known and the rest are landscapes. He also made a large number of drawings.
