Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner (May 26 May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 219 days remaining until the end of the year, 1846 Year 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar) – April 2 April 2 is the 92nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year, 1925 Year 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar) was a German Germany (pronounced /ˈdʒɜrməni/ ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south painter and professor of art especially noted for his genre paintings Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Some variations of the of monks.
Grützner was born in Groß-Karlowitz near Neisse Nysa [ˈnɨsa] is a town in southwestern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river with 47,545 inhabitants (2006 official estimate), situated in the Opole Voivodeship. It is the capital of Nysa County. It comprises the urban portion of the surrounding Gmina Nysa, a mixed urban-rural commune with a total population of 60,123 inhabitants. It is the largest, Upper Silesia Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Lower Silesia is to the northwest. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of (chronologically) Greater Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Prussia, and later of unified German Reich. It is currently split between Poland (Opole and studied under Piloty. He made his career in Munich and was, along with Carl Spitzweg Carl Spitzweg was a German romanticist painter and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the Biedermeier era and Franz von Defregger, one of that city's leading genre painters in the second half of the 19th century.
The paintings Grützner is best known for combine detailed academic Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities rendering with humorous and anecdotal subject matter, often depicting monks drinking. He died in Munich Munich (German: München, pronounced [ˈmʏnçən] ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga) is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg. There are approximately 1.36 million inhabitants within Munich in 1925.
Grützner was one of Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), popularly known as the Nazi Party. He was the ruler of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and as head of state (Führer und's favorite painters, Albert Speer Albert Speer was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for crimes of the Nazi regime quoting him as saying of one of the artist's works that he was "greatly underrated... Believe me, this Grützner will someday be worth as much as a Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Rembrandt himself couldn't have painted that better."[1]
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Regarding personal names: Ritter Ritter is a designation used as title of nobility in German-speaking areas. Traditionally it denotes the second lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below "Freiherr". For its historical association with warfare and the gentry in the Middle Ages, it can be considered roughly equal to the titles of " is a title, translated approximately as Knight A knight is a "gentleman soldier" or member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe. In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent , suggesting a connection to the knight's legendary mode of transport, not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.
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- ^ Speer, Inside the third Reich, p.44
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