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FRITZ KARL HERMANN VON UHDE (1848– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMANN VON See also:UHDE (1848– )  , See also:German painter, was See also:born at Wolkenburg in See also:Saxony . His See also:artistic career, for which he studied first in See also:Dresden, was interrupted for nearly ten years by military service, which included the two years of the Franco-German See also:War, but in 1877 he again turned his See also:attention to See also:art, studying under See also:Munkacsy in See also:Paris and afterwards independently in See also:Holland . His inclination was from the first directed towards religious subjects . He revived the practice of treating Biblical episodes realistically by transferring them to See also:modern days . Thus in the " Come, See also:Lord Jesus, be our See also:Guest," of the See also:Berlin See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:Christ appears among the See also:peasant See also:family assembled for their See also:meal in a modern German farmhouse " See also:par-lour," and in " The See also:Sermon on the See also:Mount " (Berlin, private collection) addresses a See also:crowd of 19th See also:century harvesters . Similar in conception are " Suffer Little See also:Children to come unto Me " (See also:Leipzig Museum), " The See also:Holy See also:Night " (Dresden Gallery), " The Last Supper," " The See also:Journey to See also:Bethlehem " (See also:Munich Pinakothek) and " The Miraculous See also:Draught of Fishes." Other See also:works of his in public collections are: " Saying See also:Grace," at the Luxembourg in Paris; " Christ at See also:Emmaus," at the Staedel See also:Institute, See also:Frankfort; " The Farewell of Tobias," at the See also:Liechtenstein Gallery, See also:Vienna; and a portrait of the actor Wohlmuth, at the See also:Christiania Museum . Von See also:Uhde became See also:professor and honorary Member of the See also:academies of Munich, Dresden and Berlin .

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