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I might be going crazy but this painting reminds me of characters in a videogame. Like NPCs or the sims or something? That’s just the vibe that I got off this for some reason. Just stay with me on this one:

I’m thinking it might be the way they’re all milling about doing their daily tasks, paying no mind to each other or the viewer.

And we see them only from a distance at this kind of raised-up angle above, looking down on them — they seem so tiny here — it’s that feeling you get when you look out of a high-up window and watch people going about their lives, like a city full of ants. In that same way, we’re just a spectator here, watching these nuns. Intimate yet distant.

Dominican nuns in a monastery chapel (c.1820) Oil on canvas ― Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778-1856)

The Flamenco Dancer

Leopold Schmutzler

George Grosz (German, 1893-1959), United Nations Secretariat Building, 1950. Watercolor and pen and ink on paper, 19 1/8 x 26 1/16 in.

Franz Marc – Two Horses, Red and Blue, 1912

Max Liebermann (German, 1847-1935), Die Colomierstraße in Wannsee [Colomierstrasse in Wannsee], 1917. Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm.

Milan Kunc — Frutonium (oil on canvas, 1999)

had a nice time at the museum last night ✨

Carl Gustav Carus : Faust in His Study

(1789–1869)

Carl Carus was a great admirer of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), who in turn highly appreciated both Carus's theoretical writings and also his paintings.

Present work depicts Faust, main character of Goethe's famous tragic play, sitting in his study at night in contemplation.

Ophelia by Friedrich Heyser

Portrait of Minna Beckmann-Tube (Mink with Violet Shawl) (1910) by Max Beckmann. Saint Louis Art Museum.

Self-portrait by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1816). Jewish Museum.

Lessing and Lavater as guests in the home of Moses Mendelssohn (1856) by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. Judah L. Magnes Museum.

Self-portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler (1806). Lenbachhaus, Munich.

The Ironworks of Borsig in Berlin (1847) by Karl Eduard Biermann. Märkisches Museum.

View over the harbour (1929) by Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler. Private collection, Hamburg.

Alte Häuser in Scheveningen (1897) by Max Liebermann. Museum Georg Schäfer.

George V of Hanover (1861) by Conrad L'Allemand. Celle Castle.

Chalk cliffs at Rügen (c. 1819) by Caspar David Friedrich. Kunst Museum Winterthur.

Portrait of Countess Natalya Vladimirovna Saltykov (1780) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Hermitage Museum.

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom with her brother Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (c. 1849). Royal Collection.