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LUDWIG KNAUS GERMAN PAINTER
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Ludwig Knaus (5 October 1829 7 December 1910)
was a German genre painter of the younger
Dusseldorf. School of painting. He was born at
Wiesbaden and studied from 1845 to 1852 under
Sohn and Schadow in Düsseldorf. His early works,
like The Gamblers in the Düsseldorf Gallery, are
in the manner of that school, being dark and
heavy in color. This deficiency was remedied by
study at Paris, whither he went in 1852 and
enrolled as a pupil of Thomas Couture. In 1853
his Morning after the Kermess received the second
gold Medal of the Salon and made him a celebrated
painter. Except for a year's study in Italy he
remained in Paris until 1860
His chief works of this period include The Golden
Wedding, The Baptism, and The Promenade,
purchased for the Luxembourg. From 1861 to 1866
he practiced at Berlin, producing such works as
Boys Playing Cards, Looking for a Bride
(Wiesbaden Museum), and His Highness on His
Travels. The next eight years of his life saw the
production of much of his best work, including
The Children's Festival (Nation Gallery, Berlin),
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, In Great Distress, and The Village Prince. From
1874 to 1883 he was professor at the Royal
Prussian Academy, Berlin, continuing to reside in
that city until his death.Girl in a Field
(1857) Among the most important works of his last
period were The Holy Family and The Road to
Ruin, both painted in 1876 and now in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art,New YorkMetropolitan
Behind the Curtain (1880), Dresden Gallery The
Rag Baby (1880) and A Village Festival (1881),
both in the Vanderbilt collection, Metropolitan
Museum, New York and A Duel. During his last
period Knaus also painted a series of Idyls,
with nudes in a rather classical style, of which
an important example is in the Wiesbaden Museum.
The most famous examples of his portraits, which
are genre in character, are those of the
scientist Helmholtz and the historian Mommsen,
both in the National Gallery, Berlin. Among his
many distinctions were the great gold medal of
the Berlin Exhibition of 1861 and the grand medal
of honor at the Paris Exposition of 1867.He was a
member of the Berlin, Munich, and many other
academies an Officer of the Legion of Honor and
Knight of the Prussian Order Pour le Merite.
Possibly, his most famous work is Girl in a Field
(1857). Engravings of his works were especially
popular among the German peasantry.
                                 
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T H E E N D
October 30, 2014