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Empty Rooms, Open Windows

Quiet rooms with the window open, painted in Berlin, Holland and Maine across a hundred years.

Sources: Wikipedia: Adolph MenzelWikipedia: Gari MelchersWikipedia: Andrew Wyeth

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1

Adolph Menzel made his name with hundreds of drawings of Frederick the Great's Prussia. At the same time, in the 1840s, he was painting small, freely observed pictures of the rooms and gardens around him.

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Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn's sister, was a composer and pianist who ran the family's Sunday concerts in Berlin. She died of a stroke in 1847, aged forty-one.

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The same subject

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Andrew Wyeth spent his summers in Cushing, Maine, painting the land and people around him. He is known, among other things, for his paintings of windows.

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A visual echo

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Gari Melchers, from Detroit, trained in Düsseldorf and Paris, then settled at Egmond on the Dutch coast and painted the villagers and rooms around him.

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A visual echo

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