Landscape painters Naturalism
Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that emerged from the later phase of the Realist movement.
His most famous work is his landscape-style portrait of Joan of Arc which currently resides at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.
Leonardo Bazzaro was an Italian painter who worked mainly on landscapes and vedutas. He studied painting at the Brera Academy in Milan.
Leonardo Bazzaro is considered one of the leading representatives of Lombard naturalism.
Thomas Birch was an English-born American portrait and marine painter.
He exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for forty years, beginning in 1811, and managed the museum, 1812-1817. His work is collected at PAFA, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. In 1833, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary member.
Theodor Bonenberger is a German painter and cavalry officer. He studied with Jacob Grunenwald and Karl von Geberlin at the Stuttgart Art School, then from April 30, 1887 - at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Johann Kaspar Herterich and Carl von Marr. Has been on study trips to Italy, France, Spain and the UK. After completing his studies, he settled in Munich as a freelance artist. Bonenberger also held the rank of major in the cavalry in reserve. From 1895 he took part in many exhibitions in Munich, Düsseldorf and Vienna. In 1936, he completed a portrait of Adolf Hitler, which he presented to Eva Braun for her birthday. He dealt with flower, genre, portrait, landscape and nude painting.
Alfred Thompson Bricher was a painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School.
In the 1870s, he primarily did maritime themed paintings, with attention to watercolor paintings of landscape, marine, and coastwise scenery. He often spent summers in Grand Manan, where he produced such notable works as Morning at Grand Manan (1878). In 1879, Bricher was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.
Heinrich Christian August Buntzen was a Danish landscape painter.
His first showing was at an exhibition in Charlottenborg Palace in 1824 and, later, he won several prizes for his landscape paintings. During the 1830s, the academy purchased several of his works, as did the Royal Collection.
He was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog in 1877.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
Johann Wilhelm Cordes was a German landscape painter.
Johann Wilhelm Cordes entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf in 1842, where he studied with Karl Friedrich Lessing and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer.
He specialised in realistic landscapes painted during his travels. He also created coastal scenes with staffage.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
Alexander Eckener was a German painter and graphic artist. He received his initial artistic training and inspiration from Jacob Nöbbe, a local artist in Flensburg. With his support, Eckener was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from 1888 to 1892. After graduating, he returned to his home town and became part of the Ekensund Artists' Colony. In 1899, he went to Stuttgart and was accepted by the State Academy of Fine Arts. There, he was a master student of Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, who introduced him to the art of etching; another genre in which he became proficient. After 1908, he taught at that Academy himself and was named a Professor in 1912. He took on the position of Professor of lithography and woodcuts in 1925.
Joseph Malachy Kavanagh was an Irish painter. He is known for his painting landscapes, seascapes, rural scenes in Ireland, France and Belgium and occasional portraits. He particularly was inspired by the landscape in and around Dublin. Kavanagh first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1875. In September 1881 he won the Albert Scholarship. On a trip to Brittany in 1883, he met up with a host of other young artists all of whom were influenced by the plein air naturalism of Jules Bastien-Lepage. In 1890, he published in Dublin a series of prints from etchings he created of landscape scenes from Mont St. Michel, Bruges and of "A Metallurgist" which were acquired by the British Museum in 1902. During the 1890s, he resided in Clontarf and painted numerous views around Howth and its environs, many aspects of Dublin Bay and his famous views on the sands of Portrane, Sutton, Portmarnock, Merrion and the North Bull. Another related group entails views taken along Dublin’s riverbanks.
Lotte Laserstein was a German-Swedish artist and a prominent representative of German realism.
Lotte was a student at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and became an accomplished realist painter, receiving a gold medal from the Academy for her work. Her first exhibition took place in 1930 at a Berlin gallery. Laserstein worked partly in figurative painting, had apprentices, and illustrated anatomy texts to earn money. She also painted portraits of cosmopolitan, emancipated women as well as self-portraits.
The National Socialist regime forced the artist to leave Germany in 1937 and emigrate to Sweden. Her mother died in a concentration camp. Lotte Laserstein lived in Stockholm until the end of her life, creating over five decades of work, in addition to expressive self-portraits, many moving images of other immigrants, rural landscapes and urban scenes in Sweden.
Lotte Laserstein became a member of the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and earned a reputation as a popular and respected portraitist. She has approximately 10,000 works in her oeuvre.
John Linnell was an English engraver, and portrait and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also associated with the amateur artist Edward Thomas Daniell, and with William Blake, to whom he introduced the painter and writer Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients.
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.
Adolf Luntz was a German painter, etcher, and lithographer, was known for his landscapes and figurative works. Inspired by his architect father, Viktor Luntz, Adolf joined the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1892. After studying in Vienna until 1897, he became a master student of Gustav Schönleber at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. Luntz accompanied Schönleber on various study trips and designed collectible images for the Stollwerck company in Cologne. He settled in Karlsruhe in 1905 and was a member of the German Artists' Association.
Hermann Metz, an esteemed painter and draftsman, played a pivotal role in the renowned Willingshausen Art Colony, fostering close bonds with artists like Carl Bantzer, Heinrich Giebel, and Wilhelm Thielmann. Born on March 21, 1865, in Kassel, Metz embarked on his artistic pursuit early on, attending art academies in Munich and Kassel. Although he initially leaned towards Naturalism, the influence of his fellow artists led him towards embracing Impressionism.
Metz's preferred mediums were oil paintings and drawings, often opting for sketches while outdoors, later transforming them into exquisitely nuanced artworks. His subjects primarily revolved around rural scenes, landscapes, and various places in Hessen, particularly Höchst and Willingshausen.
Notably, Metz's works bear a resemblance to the style of Paul Baum, a prominent German landscape painter. Today, his art gains increasing recognition, and you can find his masterpieces gracing the collections of several museums in Kassel and Marburg, as well as in private hands.
Intriguingly, Metz humorously coined the phrase, "Mit dem Malen versäumt man die beste Zeit" (Painting misses the best moments). His legacy as a distinguished representative of the Willingshausen Art Colony endures, captivating art enthusiasts and collectors alike.
Peder Mork Monsted (Danish: Peder Mørk Mønsted) was a Danish realist painter, representative of the Golden Age of Danish painting.
Monsted studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and gradually developed his own style of academic naturalism, almost photorealistic. During his long career, P. Monsted traveled extensively, often visiting Switzerland, Italy, North Africa, Greece, where he was a guest of the royal family and for a year painted their portraits.
Favorite themes of the artist were Danish landscapes - snowy winter or summer landscapes with boats on the water, forest. From the beginning of the XX century and until his death P. Monsted was one of the most popular and wealthy artists. He was especially popular in Germany among the Munich public.
Konrad Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly was a German painter. He became known as an influential painter of naturalism and German impressionism. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts under Hans Fredrik Gude, who led a master class in landscape painting.
Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly began with a realistic landscape, following the Barbizon school, and was strongly oriented towards the reproduction of atmospheric moods. He often created Impressionist plein air sketches, which can be seen as works in their own right. It was important for him to reproduce sensually tangible impressions of nature in different seasons and create a pole of calm in his paintings, in contrast to the bustle of the ever-expanding metropolitan Berlin of the time.
Since 1883 Müller-Kurzwelli has been a member of the Berlin Artists' Association.
Gilbert Munger was a late 19th-century American landscape painter whose romantic yet topographically accurate landscapes helped to introduce the newly opened West to the American public.
Munger's work is in the collections of numerous regional American museums as well as museums in Paris, Berlin, Munich, and Weimar. The largest collection is at the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth. His artwork is also featured in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts collection.
Édouard Pail was a French landscape and animal painter; primarily of sheep.
His canvases were primarily landscapes of the areas around Nivernais, in the style of the École de Crozant, with which he was associated. He was a great enthusiast for painting en plein aire. many of his colors give an impression of mistiness.
His works may be seen at the Musée des beaux-arts de Brest, Musée d'art et d'histoire Romain-Rolland, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot and the Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud.
John Robertson Reid was a Scottish painter who spent his early working life in Surrey, and then from the early 1880s in Cornwall in the wild south-west of England. He became the president of the Society of British Artists in 1886 and the Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in 1898. These posts gave him an entree into London society, and from the early 1900s he made his home in London. In Reid's later years, the young Sir Winston Churchill used to paint outdoors in the company of Reid.
Léon Richet was a French landscape painter. He was born in Solesmes, Nord. He studied art in Valenciennes and became a high school teacher there in 1879. He became associated with the Barbizon school and did several paintings with Narcisse Virgilio Díaz.
Salvator Rosa was a seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter. He is also known as an engraver, poet and actor.
Salvator Rosa left a very diverse artistic heritage. He was interested in historical, religious, mythological and fantastic subjects, he painted landscapes, battle scenes, portraits, still lifes. Having joined the naturalists of the Neapolitan school of painting, Rosa, however, showed originality in his treatment of subjects. For example, in his paintings on historical themes he combined realistic images with fantastical composition.
The biography of Rosa himself, full of adventures, subsequently became the subject of legends, books, paintings and musical works.
Works of Salvator Rosa today are represented in many museums and private collections in Europe and Russia.
Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée was an artist who belonged to the Hague School.
Sadée travelled widely, painting in the Pas de Calais and traveling through France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy. Sadée exhibited in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague in the years 1853-1903, and was elected to the Arte et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. He taught at the Academy in The Hague and numbered Hendrikus M. Horrix (1845-1923) amongst his pupils.
August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck was a German and French painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a landscape painter and animalist.
August Schenck created paintings that convey the harmony of nature and man. He became especially famous for his works depicting animals, becoming a sought-after animalist with worldwide recognition. His works are kept in museums in France, Germany, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Queen Victoria in Melbourne.
Franz Schreyer was a German landscape painter of the 19th and 20th centuries. His artistic practice was primarily devoted to depicting picturesque natural landscapes, including mountainous terrain, forests and rivers.
Franz Schreyer masterfully conveyed the beauty and atmosphere of nature in his works, using a variety of techniques and vivid colours.
Gottlieb Schuller was an Austrian glass painter and mosaic artist. Schuller attended the Bundesgewerbeschule in Innsbruck in the art classes of the painters Heinrich Comploj and Toni Kirchmayr. From 1897 he worked at the Tyrolean Glass Painting and Mosaic Institute on Müllerstrasse in Innsbruck. From 1919 to 1944 Gottlieb Schuller was the artistic director of the Tyrolean Glass Painting and Mosaic Institute. Gottlieb Schuller found his own formal language in the form of a romantic naturalism combined with expressive elements.
Karl (Carl) Spitz was an outstanding German landscape painter.
Karl Spitz's paintings, inspired by nature, were characterised by a colourful and expressive style. Specialising in depicting rural scenes, Spitz masterfully recreated the beauty and tranquillity of nature.
His work often reflected the subtlety of light and shadow, as well as the details of his surroundings.
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven a Belgian painter, was born at Warneton in West Flanders. He was a painter, a sculptor, an etcher, an engraver, and a lithographer of animals, animated landscapes, and portraits.
Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber was a German artist. Weber is known for his ethereal and timeless landscape paintings of early northeast America. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1848 and though he returned to Germany around 1860 his influence on American landscape painting was still felt for years.
