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ALBERT KELLER (1845- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBERT See also:KELLER (1845- )  , See also:German painter, was See also:born at Gais, in See also:Switzerland; he studied at the See also:Munich See also:Academy under See also:Lenbach and Ramberg, and must be counted among the leading colourists of the See also:modern German school . Travels in See also:Italy, See also:France, See also:England and See also:Holland, and a prolonged sojourn in See also:Paris, helped to develop his See also:style, which is marked by a sense of elegance and refinement all too rare in German See also:art . His scenes of society See also:life, such as the famous " See also:Dinner " (189o), are painted with thoroughly Parisian esprit, and his portraits are marked by the same elegant distinction . He is particularly successful in the rendering of rustling See also:silk and satin dresses and draperies . His See also:historical and imaginative See also:works are as modern in spirit and as unacademical as his portraits . At the Munich Pinakothek is his See also:painting " Jairi Tochterlein " (1886), whilst the See also:Konigsberg Museum contains his "See also:Roman See also:Bath," and the Liebieg collection in See also:Reichenberg the " See also:Audience with See also:Louis XV.," the first picture that See also:drew See also:attention to his See also:talent .

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