Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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their insatiable clients. Stm, as we have seen, there is another audi-ence in Germany and a large one, and, perhaps, we may allow that it is chiefly in what theyare pleased to call historical-painting that the love of bombast and of horrors prevails. Wehave certainly chronicled enough of quiet and tranquil domestic scenes, and here, at the endof our chapter, we come upon two idyUic experiences which may serve to rest the mind afterits strained watching for the upset or the hair-breadth salvation of the Spanish Mail. TheAt the Lake, by WUhelm Amberg, of Berlin, born in 1822, and The Be1?rothal-Ring ofFriedrich Paul Thumann, born in 1834 at Tschacksdorf in the Lausitz, are pretty pastorals,such as need no comment for man or maid, and such as every country nowadays provides in 232 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. plenty for tlie deliglit of its yoiitliful clientage. Both these artists carry us back to thelove-making of a little earlier time than ours. But, after all, the comedy or tragedy of
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THE BETROTHAL RING. FROM THE PICTURE BY PAUL THUMANN. love-making is ever the same, no matter in what dress it be played, or on what scene theprompters bell ring up the curtain. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 233 XIV. WILHELM LEIBL, the painter of At Church, and The Hunter, was born atCologne in 1844. He was at first apprenticed to a locksmith; but he had the instinctsof an artist, and in 1864 he made his way to Munich, where he became a pupil of Piloty.His tastes led him to choose genre subjects and portrait as his special field, and we read thathe was particularly drawn to the painting of Van Dyck, whom he took as his model in hisearly work. In 1869, he was at Paris; but, on the breaking-out of the Franco-Prussian Warhe returned to Munich, and has since remained there, working still in the same field in whichhe began. Leibls pictures have been called coarse, ugly, verging on caricature, while theyare also praised for their fidelity to local types, for their independence of convention,

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