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Karl George Matzek ( 6 July 1895 – 16 April 1983) was an Austrian artist of Czech descent who is best noted for his panoramas of historic battles [1] and murals of Biblical scenes in churches. Matzek was a graduate of the Berlin Academy of Art. His artwork was shown in museums and at major galleries of Europe at his artistic height (in the ...
A King and Queen in Mourning is an oil on canvas painting by German artist Karl Friedrich Lessing, created in 1830, showing a royal couple mourning their daughter's death, a scene from Ludwig Uhland's poem Das Schloß am Meere.
After the retirement of Karl Bulla, his firm was managed by his sons, Alexander and Viktor. Viktor Bulla was a notable photo-reporter in his own right. He was the author of a series on the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. [3] At that time, before the invention of the telephoto lens, photography was a very difficult and dangerous mission. [3]
[2] [3] [4] Karl Thopia, the Prince of Albania, died in 1388 and was buried in Saint John Vladimir's Church. [5] [6] During the 18th century Kostandin Shpataraku painted the walls of the church. [7] An Orthodox monastery grew around the church, and became the seat of the newly founded Archdiocese of Dyrrhachium in the 18th century.
Post-mortem photography in the Nordic countries was most popular in the early 1900s, but later died out around 1940, transferring mainly to amateur photography for personal use. When examining Iceland's culture surrounding death, it is concluded that the nation held death as an important and significant companion. [19]
1891 Norwegische Landschaft (Motiv von der Insel Straaholmen bei Langesund) (Norwegian landscape - Scene from the Straaholmen Island at Langesund) 1892 Eichenallee (Oak-Avenue) [7] 1893 Altes Kloster bei Bordighera (Old monastery at Bordighera) 1900 Am Dorfteich (Motiv bei Lübeck) (On the village pond - Scene from Lübeck)
Carl Everton Moon (or Karl, as he spelled his name prior to anti-German sentiment during World War I) was born in Wilmington, Ohio, on October 5, 1878. [1] After serving two years in the Ohio National Guard, he became a photographer's apprentice. He studied the trade for six years in Ohio and West Virginia.
John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall (17 September 1813 – 6 March 1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. [1] He is most well known for his 1875 portrait of Karl Marx.