704 Terry Ave
Seattle, Washington 98104

Drawn from the Frye Collections, this exhibition examines the profound impact of Germany on American artists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the mid-nineteenth century some of America's most esteemed artists, including William Merritt Chase, George Luks, John Twachtman, Albert Bierstadt, and John White Alexander studied at German art academies, including Dusseldorf and Munich. Although each worked in his and her own style, these American artists painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes often closely linked to developments in German painting at that time, from symbolism and realism to the beginnings of abstraction and Jugendstil.

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