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Maximilien Luce was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism.
Lucien Pissarro was a French painter, graphic artist and woodcutter, representative of Pointillism. Son of Camille Pissarro. Since 1890, he lived and worked in England.
Lucien Pissarro initially studied painting under his father. He later developed his own artistic style influenced by the neo-impressionist techniques of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Like other Neo-Impressionist painters, Pissarro used broken strokes and divisionism techniques to create light and vivid effects.
The subjects of Pissarro's paintings often included landscapes, rural scenes and coastal vistas, reflecting his love of nature and the countryside. He was particularly fond of capturing the effects of light and atmosphere in his paintings, using a subtle and harmonious colour palette.
Karl Luckhardt was a painter, draughtsman and etcher. He trained as a lithographer and studied with Emil Gies at the Städel from 1907. After military service and studies in Munich, he settled in Frankfurt as a freelance artist. In the 1920s he became a popular commissioned painter, known for his depictions of rural life. Although Luckhardt fell out of favour after the Second World War, he regained recognition through public commissions and the support of friends. His detailed and sensitive depictions of landscapes, portraits and still lifes were well received by the public. While his work was popular with the public, it was often criticised by art critics for its typecasting. A retrospective in 1985 drew attention to Luckhardt's forgotten early works, including important oil studies, watercolours, drawings and etchings. His preferred subjects included landscapes, country life, animals, portraits and still lifes, with a focus on Frankfurt and its surroundings.