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Showing posts with label Genre painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genre painting. Show all posts

Saturday

Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) German painter

German painter Adolph von Menzel is one of the most famous German artists of the 19th century and the most successful artist of his era in Germany where his popularity owing especially to politically propagandistic works, was such that few of his major paintings left Germany, as many were quickly acquired by museums in Berlin. (wikipedia)
Adolph Menzel, On a Journey to Beautiful Countryside, 1892


Adolph Menzel, Ball Scene (detail)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) French academic painter

"William Bouguereau is unquestionably one of history's greatest artistic geniuses. Yet in the past century, his reputation and unparalleled accomplishments have undergone a libelous, dishonest, relentless and systematic assault of immense proportions. His name was stricken from most history texts and when included it was only to blindly, degrade and disparage him and his work. Yet, as we shall see, it was he who single handedly opened the French academies to women, and it was he who was arguably the greatest painter of the human figure in all of art history." (Damien Bartoli, artrenewal.org)

The Grape Picker, 1895

Bacchante

Monday

Painting by Belgian Artist Albert Roosenboom (1845-1873)

Waving to the Procession, Brussels

La Toilette

Albert Roosenboom was a student of the famous painter Constantin Meunier.
Roosenboom was considered as one of the finest Belgian painters of genre scenes. His oil paintings represent interiors, romantic scenes of children at play and lifestyles of 19th century Europe.

Albert Roosenboom and and Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek. River Patrol (detail)

Monday

Bernardus Johannes Blommers Dutch Painter (1845-1914)

Blommers focused his painting on depicting the simple life of the peasants and fishermen. The artist was greatly influenced by Jozef Israels. Blommers’s interiors emanate contentment and quiet joy. His artwork was in great demand in his time, especially outside the Netherlands.