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THEODOR HILDEBRANDT (1804-1874) , See also: German painter, was See also: born at See also: Stettin
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He was a See also: disciple of the painter See also: Schadow, and, on Schadow's See also: appointment to the See also: presidency of a new See also: academy in the Rhenish provinces in 1828, followed that master to See also: Dusseldorf
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Hildebrandt began by See also: painting pictures illustrative of Goethe and See also: Shakespeare; but in this See also: form he followed the traditions of the stage rather than the See also: laws of nature
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He produced rapidly " See also: Faust and See also: Mephistopheles " (1824), " Faust and See also: Margaret " (1825), and " See also: Lear and Cordelia " (1828)
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He visited the See also: Netherlands with Schadow in 1829, and wandered alone in 1830 to See also: Italy; but travel did not alter his See also: style, though it led him to cultivate alternately See also: eclecticism and See also: realism
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At Dusseldorf, about 183o, he produced " Romeo and Juliet," " See also: Tancred and Clorinda," and other See also: works which deserved to be classed with earlier paintings; but during the same See also: period he exhibited (1829) the " Robber " and (1832) the " Captain and his Infant Son," examples of an affected but kindly realism which captivated the public, and marked to a certain extent an epoch in Prussian See also: art
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The picture which made Hildebrandt's fame is the " See also: Murder of the See also: Children of See also: King
See also: Edward " (1836), of which the See also: original, afterwards frequently copied, still belongs to the Spiegel collection at See also: Halberstadt
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Comparatively See also: late in See also: life Hildebrandt tried his See also: powers as an See also: historical painter in pictures representing See also: Wolsey and See also: Henry VIII., but he lapsed again into the romantic in " Othello and Desdemona." After 1847 Hildebrandt gave himself up to portrait-painting, and in that branch succeeded in obtaining a large practice
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He died at Dusseldorf in 1874
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