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See also:KALCKREUTH, See also:LEOPOLD, See also:COUNT VON (1855— ) , See also:German painter, a See also:direct descendant of the famous See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:marshal (see above), was See also:born at See also:Dusseldorf, received his first training at See also:Weimar from his See also:father, the landscape painter Count See also:Stanislaus von Kalckreuth (1820-1894), and subsequently studied at the See also:academies of Weimar and See also:Munich. Although he painted some portraits remarkable for their See also:power of expression, he devoted himself principally to depicting with relentless See also:realism the monotonous See also:life of the fishing folk on the See also:sea-See also:coast, and of the peasants in the See also:fields. His See also:palette is joyless, and almost See also:melancholy, and in his technique he is strongly influenced by the impressionists. He was one of the founders of the secessionist See also:movement. From 1885 to 1890 Count von Kalckreuth was See also:professor at the Weimar See also:art school. In 1890 he resigned his professorship and retired to his See also:estate of Hockricht in See also:Silesia, where he occupied himself in See also:painting subjects See also:drawn'from the life of the See also:country-folk. In 1895 he became a professor at the art school at See also:Karlsruhe. The Munich Pinakothek has his "See also:Rain-See also:bow " and the See also:Dresden See also:Gallery his " Old See also:Age." Among his See also:chief See also:works are the Funeral at Dachau," " Homewards," " See also:Wedding Procession in the Carpathian Mountains," " The Gleaners," " Old Age " " Before the See also:Fish See also:Auction," " Summer," and " Going to School."
See A. Ph. W. v. Kalckreuth, Gesch. der Herren, Freiherren and Grafen von Kalckreuth (See also:Potsdam, 1904).
End of Article: KALCKREUTH, LEOPOLD, COUNT VON (1855— )
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