Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Johann Wilhelm Preyer was a 19th century German painter who specialized in still life of fruit and glassware, often in simple arrangements that allowed him to focus great attention on individual objects. Preyer had a richly visceral approach. In good reproductions, you can get a sense of the immediacy and palpable textural quality of his…

Often when I feature a contemporary artist, I start by pointing out their geographic region, but plein air painter Patrick Saunder’s location might best be described as “America”, as he and his wife, photographer Kimberly Saunders, travel across the U.S. with an Airstream trailer, following the plein air circuit or going where the spirit takes…

Hugo Mühlig was a German painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both his father and his uncle were landscape painters. After initial study with his father, Mühlig studied painting in the tradition of academic realism at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but he eventually moved to a more impressionist influenced…