Rural landscape Poland
Jenny Fikentscher (born Nottebohm) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the Art Nouveau movement. She studied at the School of Women Painters in Karlsruhe and later became part of the Grötzingen artist colony. Fikentscher married animal painter Otto Fikentscher and raised five children in an unconventional artistic household. She was known for her botanical motifs and lithographs, often featuring local plants. Fikentscher also created collectible images for the Stollwerck chocolate company.
Moritz Heymann was a German painter, graphic artist and art teacher. Heymann initially worked primarily as a graphic artist and exhibited pencil drawings and lithographs. He created portrait and animal studies, especially of horses. Later he mainly showed paintings in exhibitions. From 1914 he often chose circus scenes as a motif for his works. He was a representative of Munich Impressionism.
Paul Hoecker was a German painter of the Munich School and founding member of the Munich Secession. In 1874, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, which he attended until the spring of 1879. His most influential instructor was Wilhelm von Diez, who led him away from genre painting to a more impressionistic style. In 1891, at the young age of 36, he was appointed to the Munich Academy. He was one of the first "modern" teachers there, exposing his students to impressionism and the latest developments from the Barbizon School. In 1892 Hoecker became one of the founding members of the Munich Secession, acting as its secretary. The Secession ultimately inspired similar movements in Berlin and other cities.
Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner was a German painter of the last third of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter, landscape painter and marinist.
Koerner received his art education in Berlin, after which he traveled extensively, depicting the areas he visited with oil paints and watercolors. The period from 1873 to 1886 was particularly productive for the artist, when he made numerous visits to Egypt and the Middle East. His most popular paintings depict Egyptian architecture, often against a backdrop of vivid picturesque sunsets.
Jean-Baptiste Pillement was a French painter and designer, known for his exquisite and delicate landscapes, but whose importance lies primarily in the engravings done after his drawings, and their influence in spreading the Rococo style and particularly the taste for chinoiserie throughout Europe.
Józef Rapacki was a talented Polish painter and graphic artist who is best known for his nostalgic landscapes of Mazovia.
At the age of fourteen, Rapacki enrolled in a drawing class taught by Wojciech Gerson. Later he enrolled at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Isidor Jabloński, Florian Czink and Felix Szynałewski.
At first he painted genre scenes. In 1889, Jozef Rapacki travelled to Munich, where he studied for two years under the portraitist Konrad Fehr and was influenced by the Munich school.
He also began doing drawings for several Warsaw periodicals and illustrated the works of Ignacy Krasicki. Rapacki exhibited extensively, including at the World's Fair (1900).
In 1907, Rapacki and his family moved to Olszanka, where his house became a gathering place for artists and writers. It was here that he concentrated on landscapes and created some of his best known works. During World War I, he drew many pictures of the German occupation for the Warsaw press.
Józef Rapacki's artwork is still popular and appreciated for its unique style and unique atmosphere.
Robert Reinick was a German painter and poet who studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts and later at the Düsseldorf Academy under Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. He also travelled to Italy in 1838 and became a member of the Ponte Molle Society in Rome. Reinick settled in Dresden in 1844 and worked as a poet, translator and artist until his death in 1852. He was friends with many notable personalities, including Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. Reinick's poem "Wie ist doch die Erde so schön, so schön!" was set to music by Johannes Brahms and gained great popularity through its use in the film Oedipussi by Loriot.
Paul Alfred Schroeter or Schröter was a German painter and etcher. He became a member of the Munich Secession and participated in their first exhibition of 1894. From 1898 to 1901, he lived in Hamburg where he became a co-founder of the Hamburgischer Künstlerklub. Many of his works are in private collections. Most of the others were destroyed during World War II.
Carl Friedrich Seiffert was a German landscape painter.
This artist's landscapes, depicting mainly motifs of southern nature, convey it in an idealised form, although they generally correctly characterise each area.
Feodor Szerbakow was a German painter. Szerbakow's painting style was decisively influenced by the Worpswede artist and impressionist Otto Modersohn. His landscape paintings often show foggy moor motifs and sunsets, but also lush floral still lifes. Later he also oriented himself to the painting style of Anton Burger.
