Carl W. Hubner, RETURN FROM THE FIELD, 1860

68.0 x 52.8cm - oil, canvas signed p.d.: Carl Hübner 1860

Carl Wilhelm Hübner (Carl Hubner, Königsberg 1814 - Düsseldorf 1879) - German painter, representative of the Düsseldorf school. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf under Wilhelm von Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn. After graduating in 1841, he settled in Pempelfort. In 1874 and 1875 he traveled in the United States. In 1864, he was appointed a professor by Kaiser Wilhelm I. He was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle. He created landscapes and genre scenes in the spirit of Romanticism. His best-known work is Silesian Weavers (1844). The painting, influenced by a poem by Heinrich Heine, depicts a scene from the Silesian Weavers Uprising. Carl Hubner's works are in museum collections in Breslau. Düsseldorf, Hanover, Oslo and Koenigsberg.