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HANS VON BARTELS (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HANS VON

BARTELS (1856– )  , German painter, was born in
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Hamburg, the son of Dr N . F . F. von Bartels, a
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Russian government official . He studied first under the marine painter R . Hardorff in Hamburg, then under C . Schweitzer in
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Dusseldorf and C . Oesterley in Hamburg, and finally at the Berlin School of
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Art . After travelling extensively, especially in Italy, he settled in Munich in 1885 and was appointed professor of
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painting in 1891 . An oil painter of
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great power, he is one of the leading German
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water-colour painters, mainly of marines and scenes of fishing
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life, painted with rude vigour and a great display of technical skill . He excels in storm scenes and in depicting the strong, healthy fishing-folk of the
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northern coasts . He became an honorary member of leading
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English, German, Dutch, Belgian and
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Austrian art societies . Among his
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principal
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works are:—" Sturmflut " (Berlin Gallery); " Lonely
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Beach " (Hungarian
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National Gallery); " Potato Harvest—Riigen " (Prague); " Storm—Bornholm " (German emperor's collection) ; and " Moonlight on the Zuyder Zee " (New Pinakothek; Munich) .

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