An umbrella Madonna, parasols of the nobility, in soirées on the beach, the rise of the white parasol and arrival of Japonisme, with Sargent and Sorolla, and in California.
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Homeric Laughter at Venus and Mars caught together, birthday paintings, an unusual portrait of a merchant of wild animals, and more.
The childhood of Zeus, the capture of Samson, Bacchante couple, two Temptations of St Anthony, and a portrait of the artist and his growing family.
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.
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.
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.
Hercules wrestling with Achelous, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, the young Samson wrestling with a lion, and wrestlers from Courbet, Bazille and Friant.
Born near Königsberg/Kaliningrad, he trained there and in Munich before studying at the Académie Julian in Paris. Prolific in all genres, he’s one of the greatest modern German painters.
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