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Featured
Artifact
Hundreds
of artifacts are on display at Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House
that reveal stories from the past. |
| Everyday
life as Hetz saw it |
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About
the artist
Artist
Karl Hetz was born in 1828 in Kulmbach Germany and died in 1899 in Munich,
Germany. Hetz was a landscape and genre painter who primarily worked
in Munich and exhibited in Hanover and Bremen prior to 1880. |
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painting was done in 1889, but reflects a genre tradition dating back to
the seventeenth century. Genre painting, like landscape, depicts an "everyday
life scene." This style appealed to a middle class audience that
enjoyed the engaging quality of the various characters illustrated (even
the dogs) and the fact that it was easy to understand, like reading an
entertaining short story. |
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