Rudolf Julius Benno Hübner (27 January 1806 – 7 November 1882) was a German historical painter of the

Düsseldorf school of painting The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State Art Academy) during the 1830s and 1840s, when the A ...

. He was also known as a poet and the father of

Emil Hübner Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner (7 July 183421 February 1901) was a German classical scholar. He was born at Düsseldorf, the son of the historical painter Julius Hübner (1806–1882). After studying at Berlin and Bonn, he traveled extensively wi ...

, a distinguished classical scholar.

Life

Hübner was born at Oels in

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, studied at the

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in Berlin under Schadow, and in

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. He first attracted attention by his picture of "Ruth and Boaz" (1825). He traveled in Italy and resided for the most part at Düsseldorf until 1839. In that year he settled at

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, becoming a professor in the Academy of Arts in 1841 and director of the Gallery of Paintings in 1871. He obtained the great gold medal at

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in 1851. He died in

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Works

Among the works of Hübner's first period are ''The Fisherman'' (1828), after

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's ballad; '' Ruth and Naomi'' (1833), in the National Gallery, Berlin; ''

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and the Four Evangelists'' (1835); ''

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and his Friends'' (1838), in the Gallery of

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; ''Consider the Lilies'' (1839); and the portrait of Frederick III, in Frankfurt's

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. To his second, or Dresden, period belong the ''Golden Age'' and ''Dispute between

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and Dr.

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'' (1866), in the Dresden Gallery; '' Charles V at San Yuste''; ''Last Days of

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''; ''

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in Winter'', and others.

Gallery

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Carl Friedrich Lessing Karl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe) was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biogr ...

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Johann Gottfried Schadow Johann Gottfried Schadow (20 May 1764 – 27 January 1850) was a German Prussian sculptor. His most iconic work is the chariot on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, executed in 1793 when he was still only 29. Biography Schadow was born i ...

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