The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) by Richard Muther
CHAPTER XX
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THE PAINTING OF HUMOROUS ANECDOTE
After seeking exotic subjects painting returns home, and finds
amongst peasants a stationary type of life which has preserved
picturesque costume.--Munich: The transition from the military
picture to the painting of peasants.--Peter Hess, Heinrich Bürkel,
Carl Spitzweg.--Hamburg: Hermann Kauffmann.--Berlin: Friedrich
Eduard Meyerheim.--The influence of Wilkie, and the novel of
village life.--Munich: Johann Kirner, Carl Enhuber.--Düsseldorf:
Adolf Schroedter, Peter Hasenclever, Jacob Becker, Rudolf Jordan,
Henry Ritter, Adolf Tidemand.--Vienna: Peter Krafft, J. Danhauser,
Ferdinand Waldmüller.--Belgium: Influence of Teniers.--Ignatius
van Regemorter, Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Henri Coene, Madou, Adolf
Dillens.--France: François Biard 140
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