Genre painters German Empire
Adolf Eberle was a German painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a genre painter and animalist.
Adolf Eberle specialized in depicting rural life, especially Bavarian and Tyrolean farmers and hunters. Early in his career, he was interested in historical subjects, but quickly returned to depicting peasant and animal life. His painting "The Sale of the Last Cow" brought him his first great success in 1861, and in 1879 at the Munich exhibition his work "The First Deer" was highly praised by the jury.
Karl Heinrich Hoff was a German painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and poet, recognized by contemporary critics as one of the best German genre painters.
Karl Hoff traveled throughout Germany, France, Italy and Greece in search of inspiration for his work. His paintings, according to critics, were masterful in conveying the characterization of the era, types, and situations. Widely known are such works of his as "Gypsies in front of the provincial chief", "Rest during the escape", "Christening of a child born after the death of the father" and others.
Hoff was an active member of the artists' association "Malkasten".
Eduard Kurzbauer was a German-Austrian painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter-genre painter, researcher of folk life.
Kurzbauer became known to the public while still an apprentice through his painting The Storyteller. He was admitted to the Piloti Studio in Munich, where he mastered the technique of painting. The following famous paintings of the artist, such as "Caught up fugitives", "Rejected Groom", "Village Feast", "Wine Trial", "Unfounded Jealousy" and others, are characterized by the vitality of the composition, expressiveness of faces, fresh colors and sensuality of color and give a special charm to the themes of folk life.
Claudius Schraudolph, also known as Claudius Schraudolph the Elder was a nineteenth-century German painter. He is known as a historical and religious painter, graphic artist, muralist, muralist, lithographer and woodcrafter, brother of the painter Johann Schraudolph.
Schraudolph traveled to Italy early in his career to study the painting of old frescoes, after which he worked on fresco decorations of various residences and cathedrals, including St. Ludwig's Basilica and All Saints Cathedral in Munich. He later worked extensively in Bavaria, painting rural churches. His nephew was the painter Claudius Schraudolph the Younger.
Fritz von Uhde was a German painter of the last third of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known as a religious and genre painter, who combined realism and impressionism in his work.
Von Uhde, creating genre and religious paintings, sought to connect the New Testament with modernity, depicting as characters representatives of the lower strata of the population. He is considered the forerunner of modern church art. Critics and the public often dismissed his work for being "vulgar," but admirers compared his style to Rembrandt for its naturalness and connection to life.