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A German Naturalist? Fritz von Uhde 2

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Religious works, including two Nativities and a fine painting of Joseph and Mary walking to Bethlehem, Naturalist and Impressionist styles too.

February 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 7 Decline

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A lot changed in painting in the 1890s. Within just a few years, Naturalism went from being all the rage to old hat. These paintings show how.

January 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 4 Art and the State

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Naturalist painting both supported the State, and attacked it – sometimes so much that works had to be suppressed. The real history of art at the end of the 19th century.

December 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Modern Christmas, paintings 1867-1921

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From Dante Gabriel Rossetti, through Lovis Corinth, to Alphonse Mucha and Christian Krohg – modern masterpieces.

December 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 3 Spread

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Unlike Impressionism, which spread relatively slowly, Naturalism was prominent in the Salon, so spread across Europe and North America like wildfire.

December 19, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 1 Emergence (1883)

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The very large Paris Salon of 1883 introduced the public and critics to a new and growing movement in painting. It wasn’t Impressionism or Post-Impressionism, though.

December 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Naturalist Andersens: LA Ring 1882-1889

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His breakthrough came in 1884, with the first of a series of social realist paintings. It was a hard life in the Danish countryside, and death is never far away.

October 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Aksel Johannessen’s street women and drunkards, 2

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By the end of the war, he suffered worsening bouts of heavy drinking. He continued to paint, including telling his life story, both past and future.

May 31, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Aksel Johannessen’s street women and drunkards, 1

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His paintings were praised by Edvard Munch himself. Tackling themes such as prostitution and alcoholism, they are important works.

May 30, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Erik Henningsen: the thirsty man

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Known only now for his poster for Tuborg beer, he was a Naturalist not afraid to campaign with his paintings against social injustice.

May 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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