1877 (ca.), Wilhelm Busch, Unknown Girl -- Lenbachhaus (Munich)
From the museum label: General audiences are familiar with Wilhelm Busch's work as a draftsman, caricaturist, and inventor of stories in pictures. Yet he also painted throughout his life, having been educated at the academies of Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich. In small portraits and landscapes that he did not show to the public during his lifetime, he translated his motifs into rapid brushstrokes without making preliminary sketches, often stippling on the paint in parallel strokes with a hard brush. Busch found inspiration for his dynamic brushwork and reduced palette in Frans Hals and other seventeenth-century Dutch artists, but also in John Constable and the Barbizon painters.
1877 (ca.), Wilhelm Busch, Unknown Girl -- Lenbachhaus (Munich)
From the museum label: General audiences are familiar with Wilhelm Busch's work as a draftsman, caricaturist, and inventor of stories in pictures. Yet he also painted throughout his life, having been educated at the academies of Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich. In small portraits and landscapes that he did not show to the public during his lifetime, he translated his motifs into rapid brushstrokes without making preliminary sketches, often stippling on the paint in parallel strokes with a hard brush. Busch found inspiration for his dynamic brushwork and reduced palette in Frans Hals and other seventeenth-century Dutch artists, but also in John Constable and the Barbizon painters.