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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een afavorite here as well, many of his best pictures belonging to Americans. For a time, too, we heard a good deal of Ziigel in this country; his pictures of sheep,mostly small canvases, were seen in the dealers shops, and eagerly bought; their simplicityand naturalness made them many friends. But, of late we have not seen them so frequently.Heinkich Johann ZxJGEL was born in 1850 at Murrhard, in Wurtemberg, but after movingabout a little in Germany—a year and a half in Stuttgart, then for a like stay in Vienna, he ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 309 finally came to settle down in Munich, where he still lives and paints. His Sheep-washing,Ox-team, Cattle Flying before a Storm, and in the National Gallery of Berlin his Sheep in an Alder Grove —are among his best known pictures. The one we copy, Openthe Door for Us ! belongs to a family of small genre pictures, such as he is best known by inthis country. The sheep are impatient to be let out of the fold, and the little girl is opening
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OPEN THE DOOR FOR US. FROM THE PICTURE BY HEINRICH ZUGEL. the door for them. The lamb, who was so very eager a minute ago, has forgotten all about itfor another minute, but probably as soon as the door is fairly opened he will push himselfthrough without the least thought of respect for his elders. His starting action is veryprettily given. No doubt our readers will find Geblers One of the Seven Sleepers, a more entertainingsubject than any of these later pictures. Friedrich Otto Gebler, bom at Dresden in 1838,went early to Munich, where he studied under Piloty. He paints animal-pictures almost ex- 3IO ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. cliisively, but his Ininior is not always so genuine as we find it liere, where it grows out of anatural, every-day situation. The morning light is streaming through the cracks and cran-nies of this old barn where the sheep are folded, and they are anxious to get out for a taste offi-esh air and the grass of the pasture. But Peter, the farm-hand, is locked u

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