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Birth
1854 (Vienna, Austria)
Death
1932 (Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)
Lived/Active
Austria/France/Germany
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middle eastern figure and genre paintings-Orientalist
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Best known for Ottoman Empire paintings of elaborately costumed merchants, guards or sentinels and pashas as well as a few portraits from his 1890 travels in Turkey, Rudolf Ernst was a leader of the second generation of the Orientalist movement and the leader of the movement in his native country of Austria. Initially the movement had been focused on life-changing political events such as the liberation of Greece and Napoleon's march through Algeria. The second generation of painters (showing 500 of 2765 characters). |
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