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WILHELM LEIBL
Leibl, born the son of a church organist in Cologne on 23 October 1844, first studied there under Hermann Becker (1817-1885). His instructors at the Munich Academy, which he entered in 1864, were Hermann Anschütz, Arthur Ramberg and Karl von Piloty. In the Munich Academy, as Quick (in Quick, Ruhmer, and West, 1978) explained, the student spent at least his first year drawing after Antique casts and the model. He graduated to Painting Technique class, whi (showing 500 of 9887 characters). |