He meets and becomes engaged to a young student at his art school, painting a double-portrait after Rembrandt, and a raucous collage of human emotion as Ulysses fights the beggar.
history of painting
Milkmaids milking cows in the shed, a farmer threshing and winnowing grain, churning butter, and a young couple courting by the back-ends of cows.
The scales of justice, prominent on many courts of law, and Vedders’ warning of corrupt legislation, for weighing souls entering paradise, or apples in a Brittany market.
Among the founders of the Berlin Secession, he moved from Munich to Berlin in 1901, after establishing himself as ‘the painter of flesh’ with a brilliant painting of Salome.
In the closing pages of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, he praises the achievements of Emperor Augustus, and hopes for his own immortality.
Paintings by the two Andersens, LA Ring and HA Brendekilde, of small villages in the south of Zealand, and of Roskilde Fjord in the north.
Paintings by JC Dahl, LA Ring, and Erik Henningsen of this large island and its archipelago at the south-west edge of the Baltic Sea.
He moved to Munich, second only to Paris at the time. There he co-founded the Secession, experimented in his painting, and drank lots of red wine and champagne.
St George’s Chapel, Windsor; a Spanish sacristy; Church of St Francis of Assisi; Basilica of St-Denis; Tanum and Uvdal Stave Church; Lincoln Cathedral; Reims Cathedral.
Hercules wrestling with Achelous, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, the young Samson wrestling with a lion, and wrestlers from Courbet, Bazille and Friant.
