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Paul Emil Jacobs | Orientalist painter

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Paul Emil Jacobs (1802-1866) was a German painter, noted for Orientalist themes, portraits and figures.
Jacobs, son of the philologist Frederick Jacobs, received his art training at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and first became known for his painting of Mercury and Argus (from Classical mythology).
In 1824 he went to Rome, where he attracted critical attention by painting "The Raising of Lazarus".
In 1836 he made a series of historical paintings at the Welfenschloss in Hannover.


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Wilhelm Leibl | Genre painter

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Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl (1844-1900) was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life.
Leibl was born in Cologne, where his father was the director of the Cathedral choir.
He was apprenticed to a locksmith before beginning his artistic training with the local painter Hermann Becker in 1861.
He entered the Munich Academy in 1864, subsequently studying with several artists including Carl Theodor von Piloty.


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Carl von Marr | Genre painter

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Carl von Marr (1858-1936) was an American-born German painter whose work encompassed religious and mythological subjects, genre and portraits.
He was also a professor of art in Munich.
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He was a pupil of Henry Vianden in Milwaukee, of Martin Schauß in Weimar, of Karl Gussow in Berlin, and subsequently of Otto Seitz at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
His first work, Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, received a medal in Munich.


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Bertolt Brecht | Piaceri / Pleasures, 1954/55

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Il primo sguardo dalla finestra al mattino
il vecchio libro ritrovato
volti entusiasti
neve, il mutare delle stagioni
il giornale
il cane
la dialettica
fare la doccia, nuotare
musica antica

Jean-Honoré Fragonard | A young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, 1769 | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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August Macke (1887-1914)

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August Macke è stato un pittore Tedesco, uno degli esponenti principali del movimento espressionista tedesco Der Blaue Reiter (Il cavaliere blu).
Macke visse durante un periodo particolarmente innovativo per l'arte tedesca che vide lo sviluppo dei principali movimenti espressionisti tedeschi nonché l'arrivo dei successivi movimenti di avanguardia che si stavano formando nel resto d'Europa.
Come un vero artista del suo tempo, Macke sapeva come integrare nei suoi quadri gli elementi dell'avanguardia che più lo interessavano.


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Heinz Geilfus | Repairing Hearts

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Heinz Geilfus (born Johannes Karl Heinrich Geilfus on November 25, 1890 in Gießen - died January 25, 1956 in Bad Nauheim) was a German commercial artist, cartoonist and hunting painter.
Johannes Karl Heinrich "Heinz" Geilfus was born in late November 1890 as the son of the justice secretary Otto Geilfus and his wife Minna (née Rühl) in Gießen.
He grew up with his younger brother August and attended secondary school in Gießen.
He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and training as a technical draftsman.


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Joseph Christian Leyendecker | Art Nouveau illustrator

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German-American illustrator Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was one of the most prominent and financially successful freelance commercial artists in the U.S.
He was active between 1895 and 1951 producing drawings and paintings for hundreds of posters, books, advertisements, and magazine covers and stories.
He is best known for his 80 covers for Collier's Weekly, 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post, and advertising illustrations for B. Kuppenheimer men's clothing and Arrow brand shirts and detachable collars.
He was one of the few known reportedly gay artists working in the early-twentieth century U.S.


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Beethoven | Heiligenstadt Testament, 1802

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Il Testamento di Heiligenstadt è una lettera manoscritta del musicista tedesco Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) indirizzata ai suoi fratelli Kaspar Karl e Nikolaus Johann, scritta il 6 ottobre 1802 a Heiligenstadt, un sobborgo di Vienna, dove il compositore aveva la residenza.
A soli 32 anni, Beethoven intuisce che la sua sordità sarà irreversibile.
I primi sintomi erano stati già individuati dal grande compositore tedesco nel 1796, cioè a 26 anni.

Joseph Karl Stieler | Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis, 1820

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