1. Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann was an impressionist educated at the University of Berlin, city where he lived for most of his life.
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| Cobbler's Workshop, by Max Liebermann. There is something indescribably romantic about the way education used to work. In another life, instead of navigating the social dynamics of a class of sixty aspiring medics trying to learn from teachers who would prefer not to be there, I would have been an apprentice to an experienced doctor. I would live in her house, eat with her family and learn from her books. Not unlike the cobbler apprentice in this painting. And perhaps that way was better... |
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| Flax spinners in Laren, by Max Liebermann. This picture reminds me of "At the end of the day", from Les mis |
2. Fritz von Uhde
Uhde was a student of Max Liebermann, who went to the Netherlands at his teacher's suggestion. It is there that he painted this image (below).
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| Organgrinder in Zandvoort, by Fritz von Uhde. |
3. Ferdinand Hodler
Hodler was Swiss, and he lost his entire family to tuberculosis before becoming an apprentice to the painter Ferdinand Sommer. According to wikipedie: "Hodler developed a style he called "parallelism" that emphasized the symmetry and rhythm he believed formed the basis of human society.". I would never describe human society with the word symetry, by any means. His style reminded me a bit of Egon Schiele. Am I way off?
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| Young man admired by woman II, by Ferdinand Hodler |
4. Lesser Ury
Ury was born in the Kingdom of Prussia. He is an impressionist from the Düsseldorf school (a group of painters that studied at the Dusseldorf academy).
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| Nollendorfplatz by night, by Lesser Ury |
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