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Hans Thoma | Glade meadow, 1876

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German symbolist painter Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.
He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces.
He entered the Karlsruhe academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career.

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Adolf Heinrich-Hansen | Architectural painter

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Adolf Heinrich Claus Hansen (1859-1925), known as Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, was a Danish architectural painter.
His father, Heinrich Hansen, was also an architectural painter. Late in his life, he turned to animal painting.
Adolf Heinrich-Hansen was born in Copenhagen, the son of architectural painter and later professor Heinrich Hansen and Margrethe Elisabeth Burmeister.


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Dutch Art History and Sitemap

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Dutch art describes the history of visual arts in the Netherlands, after the United Provinces separated from Flanders.
Earlier painting in the area is covered in Early Netherlandish painting and Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting.
The history of Dutch art is dominated by the Dutch Golden Age painting, mostly of about 1620-1680, when a very distinct style and new types of painting were developed, though still keeping close links with Flemish Baroque painting.

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Peter McGowan | Romantic garden

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Peter McGowan is an British painter🎨. He was born and raised in Yorkshire, England and still makes his home there. McGowan paints from his studio in the County that has inspired many great artists, including Henry Moore and David Hockney.
Light and its effects fascinate McGowan.
He works in several media, including oils, acrylics, watercolors and pastels, to translate this interest to paper and canvas.

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Lucian Freud (1922-2011)

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Lucian Freud, Figurative Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Is Dead at 88

By William Grimes, July 21, 2011 / The New York Times

Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London. He was 88.
He died following a brief illness, said William Acquavella of Acquavella Galleries, Mr. Freud’s dealer.

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