Biedermeier Düsseldorf school of painting
Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte
Aachen 28.01.1801 — Aachen 25.04.1892
Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte was a German portrait painter of the 19th century. Billotte's oeuvre combined different styles of his era: elements of the Romantic, the Nazarene, the Biedermeier and the late Romantic.century. His most important works are the portraits of the Aachen print manufacturer Henry Joseph Napoléon Lambertz and his wife Pauline. Billotte's early work, a portrait of his wife Johanna, is a Romantic and Biedermeier painting. His repertoire as an artist includes colored photographs, landscape paintings, still lifes, photocopies and lithographs. In addition to the portraits, his oeuvre includes a family portrait of his own family. In the style of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he painted his version of a "Sappho" around 1830. Billotte made his oil paintings both in portrait sessions and from photographs taken by his son Carl. The method of painting from photographs was in the 19th century.
1801–1892
Johann Peter Hasenclever
Remscheid 18.05.1810 — Düsseldorf 16.12.1853
Johann Peter Hasenclever was a German painter of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, a representative of the Düsseldorf school of art, who is considered one of the founders of German genre painting.
Hasenclever began his work by interpreting biblical, mythological and romantic subjects, but eventually found his calling in humorous scenes from bourgeois life, especially Pyrenean towns and cities. Among his famous works are "The Amusing Examination," "The Reading Room," and "The Trial of Wine," distributed in engravings and lithographs.
1810–1853