The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) by Richard Muther

CHAPTER XXII

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THE VILLAGE TALE Germany: Louis Knaus, Benjamin Vautier, Franz Defregger, Mathias Schmidt, Alois Gabl, Eduard Kurzbauer, Hugo Kauffmann, Wilhelm Riefstahl.--The Comedy of Monks: Eduard Grützner.--Tales of the Exchange and the Manufactory: Ludwig Bokelmann, Ferdinand Brütt.--Germany begins to transmit the principles of _genre_ painting to other countries.--France: Gustave Brion, Charles Marchal, Jules Breton.--Norway and Sweden stand in union with Düsseldorf: Karl D'Uncker, Wilhelm Wallander, Anders Koskull, Kilian Zoll, Peter Eskilson, August Jernberg, Ferdinand Fagerlin, V. Stoltenberg-Lerche, Hans Dahl.--Hungary fructified by Munich: Ludwig Ebner, Paul Boehm, Otto von Baditz, Koloman Déry, Julius Aggházi, Alexander Bihari, Ignaz Ruskovics, Johann Jankó, Tihamér Margitay, Paul Vagó, Arpad Fessty, Otto Koroknyai, D. Skuteczky.--Difference between these pictures and those of the old Dutch masters.--From Hogarth to Knaus.--Why Hogarth succumbed, and _genre_ painting had to become painting pure and simple.--This new basis of art created by the landscapists 194