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Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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eturn to Berlin was intrusted Avith a share in the decoration of the Hall ofNorthern Antiquities in the New Museum. The work of filling the wall-space above thecases and over the doors and windows with subjects from the Northern Mythology wasdivided among several artists, Bellermann, MuUer, Heidenreich, and Richter, and the pictureswere executed in the then newly-revived art of wax-painting (stereoohromy). To Richter weregiven the three subjects Balder —the Northern Apollo, the Walkyrie —who conductedthe souls of the illustrious dead to Walhalla, and Walhalla itself, the abode of the godsand heroes. Later, for a Christmas festival, Richter painted for an exhibition of transparentpictures, a Resurrection of Jairus Daughter which so delighted the king that he gave the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 239 artist a commission to paint it on a larger scale in oils. Eichters next success was gained atthe exhibition of 1856, when he showed his first portrait. This was considered the crown of
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A YOUNG NEAPOLITAN. FROM THE PICTURE BY LUDWIG RICHTER. the collection and still maintains its reputation. In 1859, he received the commission todaint one of the thirty large oil-paintings intended for the decoration of the great Entrance- 240 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME, Hall of the Maximilianeiim at Munich—an institution founded by King Maximilian the II.for the advanced education of young men who hare i^roved their special fitness for the civil-service of the state. Many of the most distinguished artists of Germany were invited to takepart in this work of decoration, which, after the grand German manner, was intended to beillustrative of the most important events in the history of the world. Cabanel and Pauwelswere, we believe, the only artists outside of Germany invited to participate in this work.Cabanel painted, The Fall of Man, and Pauwels, Louis XIV. receiving a Deputation fromthe Republic of Genoa—this latter, a singular choice of subject when the limits of thescheme are

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