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- Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - German Painter, 1751-1829 - born in Hamburg
painted well known portraits of Goethe and Schiller... click to read more
- Caspar David Friedrich - German Romantic Painter, 1774-1840
Friedrich's paintings are hypnotic and memorable, evoking powerful longing .. click to read more
- Emil Nolde - German Expressionist Painter, 1867-1956
Art is exalted above religions and races. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians, and the Greeks. And their races are exhausted, crossbred and spoiled. Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
- Emil Nolde , 1911, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art
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