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Frankenthal School

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Frankenthal School
Term used to refer to a group of landscape artists living in Frankenthal, Germany, from c. 1586 to the 1620s. In 1562 the Elector Palatine Frederick III established an asylum for Protestant refugees at Frankenthal. By c. 1586 the growing community included a number of landscape painters, chiefly émigrés from Flanders and Brabant, who had fled religious persecution after the fall of Mechelen and Antwerp to the Spanish in 1585. Sponsel and Plietzsch proposed that ... (view more)

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Frankenthal School
Term used to refer to a group of landscape artists living in Frankenthal, Germany, from c. 1586 to the 1620s. In 1562 the Elector Palatine Frederick III established an asylum for Protestant refugees at Frankenthal. By c. 1586 the growing community included a number of landscape painters, chiefly émigrés from Flanders and Brabant, who had fled religious persecution after the fall of Mechelen and Antwerp to the Spanish in 1585. Sponsel and Plietzsch proposed that there was actually a ‘colony’ of painters, a ‘Frankenthal school’; however, more recent research (Krämer, 1975) suggests that the small, shifting group of landscape painters—of which Gillis van Coninxloo III was the most important member—may not have counted more than a few artists at any one time.  (hide)

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