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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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note, that the suit-of-armor hanging on the wallis apparently too small for any grown person, although the sword that hangs with it is of theright size; the handle of the inevitable beer-mug, too, could in this case hardly be grasped byour doughty warriors hand. These points are, after all, not unimportant; they detract fromthe truthfulness of the general effect and seem to indicate a want of correctness in the artistseye. Julius Benczue, the painter of Forsaken, is a native of Hungary, born in 1844 atNyiregyhaza. When yet a child his parents removed to Kaschau, where he had better advan-tages for education in the excellent high-school, and improved his time so well that by the ad-vice of friends who thought they saw signs of uncommon talent in the lad, he was sent to 214 AKT AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. Munich to stiidj^ art. He was at first the pupil in the academy of Hiltensperger and Anschiitzand later entered the studio of Piloty. Here he became intimate with his fellow pupil Gabriel
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A WARRIOR AND HIS CHILD. FROM THE PICTURE BY FERDINAND HILDEBRANDT. Max, whose sister he afterward married. After an extended tour in Hungary, South Germany,France, and Upper Italy, he settled in Munich, where he lives and works at present. His field

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