Landscape painters Prussia
August Kopisch was a German painter of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as a landscape painter and poet.
Kopisch began his path in art with painting, but switched to literature due to a hand injury. He studied at art academies in Dresden, Prague and Vienna. His paintings were characterized by bright colors. There are 23 known paintings by Kopisch, but some of them have not survived. One of his most notable masterpieces is the 1848 painting Pontic Moorlands at Sunset.
As a poet, Kopisch also left his mark on German literature and art. He notably translated Dante's Divine Comedy and Italian folk songs into German.
Paul Lehmann-Brauns was a German painter, known as a landscape painter.
Paul Lehmann-Brauns lived in Berlin, but found inspiration for his works in Hamburg, Potsdam, the Thuringian Forest and the Central German Uplands. The North Frisian Islands were his favourite subject.
Karl Friedrich Lessing was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a Romantic painter, a representative of the Düsseldorf School of painting.
Lessing began his career with melancholic-romantic landscapes and paintings on literary subjects. He later gained popularity as a landscape painter. Reproductions of his works were widely printed in German magazines of the XIX century. Later Lessing switched to historical subjects, creating historical paintings, as well as frescoes.
Lessing was a member of various art societies and academies, both German and foreign.
Hermann Schmiechen was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first quarter of the twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, portraitist, representative of the Düsseldorf School of painting, and theosophist.
Hermann Schmiechen studied art in Breslau and Düsseldorf, and was a member of the art association "Malkasten". In 1883 he was invited to England to create portraits of the British aristocracy. In London, the artist became a member of the Theosophical Society. At the request of Helena Blavatsky, the head of the society, he drew several portraits of theosophical mahatmas. According to researchers, the master showed certain psychic abilities, which makes his work interesting and unique.