FRITZ KARL

HERMANN VON

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• FRITZ KARL HERMANN VON UHDE (1848– )

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