meißner und sächsische künstler
Carl Spitzweg was a German romanticist painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.
Bernhard Kretzschmar was a German painter and graphic artist.
Kretzschmar studied at the Dresden Academy, in 1920 destroyed most of his work and began his career anew. In 1932 he co-founded the Dresden Secession, but later the Social Democrats banned him as a degenerate artist, and his paintings were removed from museums and galleries. Kretzschmar hated the Nazis and had to flee the country.
Like many artists of his generation, he dabbled in Expressionism, then switched to Verismo. He skillfully tried his hand at both Futurism and Impressionism. He painted on the themes of social poverty, as well as comically depicting the bourgeois way of life. In 1945, most of his works were destroyed in an air raid.
After World War II, social motifs receded into the background and Kretzschmar focused more on landscapes, more often in the suburban areas of Dresden. He also painted several self-portraits with somber, skeptical and ironic facial expressions during his lifetime, which provide a vivid characterization of the artist.
From 1946, Bernhard Kretzschmar worked as a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 1959 he received the National Prize of the GDR, and since 1969 he has been a corresponding member of the German Academy of Arts in East Berlin.
Antoine Pesne was a French and German painter of the first half of the 18th century. He is known as a painter, portraitist and is considered one of the most important representatives of the Friderician Rococo.
Pesne was court painter to three Prussian kings and director of the Prussian Academy of Arts and Mechanical Sciences. Beginning in the Baroque style, he later became one of the fathers of Rococo painting, combining the French school with this style. His decorative works, including mythological and allegorical scenes, adorned buildings in Rheinsberg, Berlin, and Potsdam. Pesne contributed to the spread of French influence on art in the capitals of Europe.
Curt Liebich was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
After initial training in Dresden, Liebich moved to the Academic High School of Fine Arts in Berlin. He then studied at the Grand Ducal-Saxon Art School in Weimar and in 1896 he settled in Gutach. His painting was mainly concerned with rural and village life. As an illustrator, he designed vignettes and covers for books and magazines as well as advertising graphics.
In 1923, Liebich was awarded the title of honorary citizen of Gutach. In 2005, the Hasemann-Liebich Art Museum opened in Gutach with works by the two Black Forest artists.
Georges Desmarées was a Swedish-born German portrait painter.
