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Title: The art of painting in the nineteenth century
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927
Subjects: Painting -- History
Publisher: Boston and London, Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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charm of nobility. It has been saidof Praxiteles that he never put his chisel to theblock but that the little god of love was peepingover his shoulder. Thoma, it would seem, has anequally faithful companion in the guardian angel of the German race. Fritz von Uhde (1848 ), to mention only one more of this group of men,is best known for his religious pictures. Hepaints peasants as they are to-day and placesChrist among them. By bringing the person ofChrist thus close to us, he succeeds in giving tohis pictures at the same time spirituality andreality, such as are unknown in earlier paintings.Slightly outside the more intimate circle of theSecessionists a great many men have learned thevaluable lessons which this movement had toteach, and have thus begun to bridge the chasmbetween the two schools. Arthur Kampfof Ber-lin (1864 ) has won success largely with his decorative paintings, and Carl Marr (1858 ), an American who has settled in Munich, is dis-tinguished for his delicate madonnas.
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Copyright by Ginn & Company Fritz vox Uhde Christ Teaching GERMAN PAINTING 59 Another characteristic of the Secessionists is adistinct love for their immediate surroundings;or, to be more precise, this interest in scenes athome arose almost simultaneously with the breakthat occurred between the adherents of the oldstyle of painting and the young enthusiasts.Formerly artists had often failed to see the beautyof the distinctly German landscape, and at besthad rendered what was grand in her mountainregions. But now they began to feel the charmalso of the lowlands. They discovered, in fact,that nature spoke her infinite message every-where. Like Corot and his friends at Barbizon,several German artists have withdrawn from thehurry of city life and have established colonies incountry surroundings. The best known of thesecolonies is that at Worpswede near Bremen, where such men as Mackensen (1866 ), Modersohn (1865 ), and Hans am Ende are the leaders. The richness of modern German art is

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