Wilhelm von Kaulbach
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Wilhelm von Kaulbach was a German painter, muralist, and book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Photograph of Wilhelm von Kaulbach in 1864
Sketches for frescos in the New Pinakothek, 1850
Destruction of Jerusalem
Schmetterlinge (Butterflies), c. 1860 (destroyed in 1945)
Peter von Cornelius
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Peter von Cornelius was a German painter and one of the main representatives of the Nazarene movement. He was the uncle of the composer Peter Cornelius.
Wilhelm von Kaulbach
…was granted admission to the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts by the sculptor Rauch. The academy was then becoming renowned under the directorship of Peter von Cornelius, of whom he became a distinguished pupil. The ambitious work by which Ludwig I of Bavaria sought to transform Munich into a German Athens afforded the…
Peter von Cornelius; by Eduard von Heuss
The Wise & Foolish Virgins, c. 1813
Tavern Scene, circa 1820, National Museum in Wrocław
Fresco of The Last Judgment at the Ludwigskirche in Munich