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Georg Friedrich Kersting
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Woman Embroidering, Biedermeier-style painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting, oil on canvas, c. 1814; in the Kunstsammlungen, Weimar, Germany.
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  • Woman Embroidering, Biedermeier-style painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting, oil on canvas, c. 1814; in the Kunstsammlungen, Weimar, Germany.
    Biedermeier style

    …representative painters include Franz Krüger, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Julius Oldach, Carl Spitzweg, and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

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    …representative painters include Franz Krüger, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Julius Oldach, Carl Spitzweg, and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

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  • Judith Leyster: Self-Portrait
    Western painting
    / Germany

    …Oehme, a landscape painter, and Georg Friedrich Kersting, who captured in his stark interiors something of the master’s atmosphere of silent worship. However, two other pupils of Friedrich subsequently abandoned tragic landscapes; one, the Norwegian Johan Christian Dahl, reverted to naturalism; the other, Karl Blechen, joined the Romantic realists.

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    …Oehme, a landscape painter, and Georg Friedrich Kersting, who captured in his stark interiors something of the master’s atmosphere of silent worship. However, two other pupils of Friedrich subsequently abandoned tragic landscapes; one, the Norwegian Johan Christian Dahl, reverted to naturalism; the other, Karl Blechen, joined the Romantic realists.

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