Heinrich Hermanns | Cityscapes painter

Heinrich Hermanns (1862-1942) was a German lithographer and landscape painter.

He was also known for architectural paintings and vedute and was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Born in Düsseldorf, Hermanns completed his primary education in 1883 and went on to study at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Eugen Dücker, Heinrich Lauenstein, Georg Heinrich Crola and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen.

Carl Emil Mücke | Genre painter

Carl Emil Mücke (1847-1923,) was a German genre and animal painter of the Düsseldorf school.

He painted mostly domestic interior scenes with women, girls and lively cats and kittens.

Carl Mücke is the son of the painter Heinrich Mücke.

Felix Schlesinger | Genre painter

Felix Schlesinger (1833-1910) was a German genre painter of the Düsseldorf School.

Felix Schlesinger was born in a family of painters.

In 1848, he received his first artistic training from Friedrich Heimerdinger at his birthplace Hamburg, later in Antwerp, at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and in Paris.

Between 1861 and 1863 he worked mainly in Frankfurt am Main, before he finally settled in Munich.

Carl Schlesinger | Genre / Landscape painter

Carl Schlesinger (1825-1893) was a Swiss-German genre and landscape painter.

Schlesinger began his painting apprenticeship in Hamburg, with Gerdt Hardorff and Hermann Kauffmann and continued it in 1844 at the Prague Academy with Christian Ruben.

Willy Brandes | Genre painter

Willy Brandes (1876-1946) was a German painter.

Willy Brandes was born in Bornstädt near Potsdam.

At a young age he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter.

He studied under Albert Hertel (1843-1912) and Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842-1915) at the Berlin Academy and later was a master student of Eugen Bracht (1842-1921).

Ferdinand Knab | Romantic painter

Ferdinand Knab (1834-1902) was a German painter.

Knab was initially students Heideloff in Nuremberg, where he was for two years engaged in building practice, and went to Munich in 1859 to devote himself to painting architecture.

He attended the schools of Arthur Ramberg and Piloty and went to Italy in 1868.

Since his return he treated with preference motives of this country and in between was often busy with work for the winter garden of King Ludwig II in the Munich Residence and the Linderhof Castle.

Karl Becker | Academic Classical painter

Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker, also known as Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (1820-1900) was a German history painter and president of the Berlin Academy.

Becker was born and died in Berlin.

He was a pupil of August von Klöber, Peter von Cornelius and Heinrich Maria von Hess, and afterwards studied a year in Paris, two years in Rome, and visited Venice.

Lotte Laserstein | Figurative painter

Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) was a German-Swedish painter.

She was an artist of figurative paintings in Germany's Weimar Republic.

The National Socialist regime and its anti-Semitism forced her to leave Germany in 1937 and to emigrate to Sweden.

In Sweden, she continued to work as a portraitist and painter of landscapes until her death.

The paintings she created during the 1920s and 1930s fit into the movement of New Objectivity in Germany.

Ferdinand Fagerlin | Genre painter

Ferdinand Julius Fagerlin (1825-1907) was a Swedish-German genre painter. Born in Stockholm, Fagerlin first apprenticed as a shipbuilder (1842-1843) before attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1845-1847).

He joined the army (1850-1854) and practiced painting, particularly portraits.

Heinrich Campendonk | Expressionist painter

Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk (1889-1957) was a painter and graphic designer born in Germany who became a naturalized Dutch citizen.

Campendonk was born in Krefeld, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire.

He was the son of a textile merchant, and served a textile apprenticeship until 1905.

From 1905 to 1909, he received artistic education from Johan Thorn Prikker at the Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule, a progressive school for Arts and Crafts.

Ferdinand Leeke (1859-1937)

Ferdinand Leeke was a German painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas.

A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich (1843-1905) and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838-1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter.

Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series of paintings showing scenes from ten operas by Wagner.

Karl Wilhelm Bauerle (1831-1912)

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle - (also: Carl Bauerle/Bowerley) - (1831-1912) was a German painter who achieved international fame as a portrait painter at German courts and later at the British one Court of Queen Victoria.

Little has been published about Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle.

He emigrated to Ohio, learned to engrave from an uncle in Cincinnati, then returned to Stuttgart to pursue a career as a children's portraitist and genre painter (his patrons included Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Queen Victoria, Edward Prince of Wales).

Berthold Woltze | Genre painter

Berthold Woltze (born 24 August 1829 in Havelberg; died 29 November 1896 in Weimar) was a German genre painter, portrait painter, and illustrator.

Berthold Woltze was a professor at Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School.

In the period from 1871 to 1878 he published numerous of his works in the Gartenlaube newspaper.

One of his most famous works is Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman).

He was the father of the architectural painter Peter Woltze (1860-1925).

Lettera d'amore di Ernest Hemingway a Marlene Dietrich

Il romanziere premio Nobel Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) scrisse 61 lettere in 10 anni all'attrice Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992).

Iniziarono a scriversi quando lui aveva 50 anni e lei 47.

Per Hemingway, la Dietrich era 'il mio piccolo crucco' o 'figlia', per lei, lui era semplicemente 'papà', il soprannome universale di Hemingway.

Fu amore a prima vista quando si incontrarono a bordo di un transatlantico francese nel 1934, che dall'Europa li avrebbe portati in America.

Johannes Brahms: "Studiate Bach: lì troverete tutto quello che cercate"

• "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind".

• "Su un pentagramma, per un piccolo strumento, l'uomo scrive un intero mondo dei pensieri più profondi e dei sentimenti più potenti. Se avessi immaginato che avrei potuto creare, persino concepito il pezzo, sono abbastanza sicuro che l’eccesso di eccitazione e l’esperienza sconvolgente mi avrebbe mandato fuori di testa".

Johann Strauss Jr e Johannes Brahms, 1894

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff | Expressionist painter

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.

He was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.

Life and work

Schmidt-Rottluff was born in Rottluff, nowadays a district of Chemnitz, on 1 December 1884.

He attended the humanistische gymnasium (classics-oriented secondary school) in Chemnitz, where he befriended Erich Heckel.

He enrolled in architecture at the Sächsische Technische Hochschule in Dresden in 1905, following in Heckel's footsteps, but gave up after one term.

Albert Birkle | Magic realism painter

Albert Birkle (1900-1986) was a German painter and draftsman.

Albert Birkle was born in Charlottenburg, then an independent city and since 1920 part of Berlin.

His grandfather on his mother's side, Gustav Bregenzer, and his father, Carl Birkle, both were painters, originally from Swabia.

Albert Birkle was trained as a decorative painter in his father's firm.

From 1918 to 1924, he studied at the Hochschule für die bildenden Künste/College of Fine Arts, a predecessor of today's Universität der Künste Berlin.

Richard Wagner: "L'uomo si distingue dall'animale in virtù della compassione verso l'animale stesso"

• Joy is not in things; it is in us.

• La gioia non è nelle cose; è in noi.

• The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

• L'organo più antico, più vero, più bello della musica, l'origine alla quale solo la nostra musica deve il suo essere, è la voce umana.

• Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

• La musica è il discorso inarticolato del cuore, che non può essere compresso in parole, perché è infinito.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1882 | Musée d'Orsay

Karl Gussow | Genre painter

Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg - 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor.

His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he was enrolled at the newly founded Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar.

This led to studying the Dutch Masters in the studios of the history and genre painter, Arthur von Ramberg.

Walter Firle | Genre painter

Walter Firle or Walther Firle (1859-1929) was a portrait and genre painter.

Walter Firle received lessons in painting from an early age.

In 1879 he attended the Munich Academy of Art, where he was a student of Alois Gabl, Ludwig von Löfftz and Gabriel von Hackl.

During a stay in Italy the artist created numerous landscapes as well as beach and town views.