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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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attitude and in the lines of its drapery of the Fatesof the Parthenon, is yet instinct with warm human life, and shows an intimate sympathy withthe poet in Avhose gallery of women Penelope is one of the most beautiful figures. No one inmodern times has painted anything of this kind more worthy to stand as an illustration ofHomer than this. WiLHELM DiEZ, distinguished among the artists of our day as a genre-painter and illus-trator, was born at Baireuth in 1839. At fourteen he went to Munich, where he has since lS2 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. continued to liA^e and work. He began his studies there under Piloty, and he is anotherexample of the freedom enjoyed in that school, since in his case as in that of so many others,his way of looking at natnre and his way of painting are as unlike his master as can beimagined. He has been compared to Wouverman, but this is unnecessary; his manner isreally his o^vn, and his individuality so strong, that it makes itself felt even when his pictures
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THE CAMP-FOLLOWER.FROM THE PAINTING BY WILHELM DIEZ. are seen for the first time in a large collection of miscellaneous works. And yet they are butof smaU dimensions, and their subjects amount to but little in themselves. The two thatwe give, The Camp-FoUower and the Marauders, are illustrations of the time of theThirty Years War, a period with which Diez has made himself thoroughly acquainted. Mr.Kurzs excellent reproduction from the photograph, and Mr..Rhodes equally good copy ofthe wood-cut, give an excellent idea of the look of his pictures, though Mr. Kurz had theadvantage of the better original; the rich, flowing touch and the delightful sense of relation

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