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KARL VON PILOTY (1826-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 614 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PILOTY (1826-1886)  , See also:German painter, was See also:born at See also:Munich, on the 1st of See also:October 1826 . His See also:father, See also:Ferdinand See also:Piloty (d . 1844), enjoyed a See also:great reputation as a lithographer . In 184o he was admitted as a student of the Munich See also:Academy, under the artists Schorn and Schnorr . After a See also:journey to See also:Belgium, See also:France and See also:England, he commenced See also:work as a painter of genre pictures, and in 1853 produced a work, See also:Die Amme (" The Wet See also:Nurse "), which, on See also:account of its originality of See also:style,--See also:PIMENTO caused a considerable sensation in See also:Germany at the See also:time . But he soon forsook this See also:branch of See also:painting in favour of See also:historical subjects, and produced in 1854 for See also:King See also:Maximilian II . " The See also:Adhesion of Maximilian I. to the See also:Catholic See also:League in 1609." It was succeeded by " Seni at the Dead See also:Body of See also:Wallenstein " (1855), which gained for the See also:young painter the membership of the Munich Academy, where he succeeded Schorn (his See also:brother-in-See also:law) as See also:professor . Among other well-known See also:works by Piloty are the " See also:Battle of the See also:White See also:Mountain near See also:Prague," " See also:Nero Dancing upon the Ruins of See also:Rome " (1861), " See also:Godfrey of See also:Bouillon on a See also:Pilgrimage to the See also:Holy See also:Land " (1861), " Galileo in See also:Prison " (1864), and " The See also:Death of See also:Alexander the Great " (unfinished), his last great work . He also executed a number of mural paintings for the royal See also:palace in Munich . For See also:Baron von Schach he painted the justly celebrated " See also:Discovery of See also:America." In 1874 he was appointed keeper of the Munich Academy, being after-wards ennobled by the king of See also:Bavaria . Piloty was the fore-most representative of the realistic school in Germany . He was a most successful teacher, and among his more famous pupils may be mentioned See also:Makart, See also:Lenbach, Defregger, Max and Griitzner .

He died at Munich on the 21st of See also:

July 1886 .

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