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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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the wood-carver Sicktnger. While at work in JIunich, hisfather died, and in 1856 he entered the Academy there, determined to be a painter; but theAcademic instruction did not suit him, and he applied for admission to the studio of Piloty.He was long in finding his place in art, now acknowledged to be among the best of li^•ingportrait-painters, for his first efforts were in the field of genre, and were marked by no specialindividuality—his Peasant-family in a Storm, attracted notice by its coloring, but for therest did not difier from the ordinary run of such subjects as treated by clever men. In 1858he accompanied PUoty on a short visit to Rome, and while there painted a view of theRoman Forum and its surroundings, which, when exhibited at Munich, created a lively inter- 268 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. est, and fixed public attention upon the artist as a man certain to be heard from. Thisimpression was strengthened by his next performance, the Portrait ol a Physician, Avhere for
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PRINCE VON BISMARCK. FROM THE PORTRAIT BY FRANZ LENBACH. the first time he showed his great skill in this field in full force. The absence of all detail that could distract attention from the head itself, the strong life-like expression, and the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 269 energy of the handling, called forth the warmest expressions of admiration from his fellow-artists and from the public, and with this work his success began. In 1860, he received a callto take charge of the art-school at Weimar, but he remained there only a short time. CountSchack invited him to go a second time to Rome, and he joyfully accepted the offer. Stilllater, he visited Spain, and both there and in Italy made those copies of the old masterswhich adorn the gallery of Count Schack in Munich, and which so far excel the copies madefor that collection by other artists of the time. But a man of Lenbachs powers was not bornto be a copyist of other men, even of the greatest, and his success in portrait-painting

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