Jeanna Bauck: Wild Flowers, 1900

Jeanna Bauck (1840-1926) was a Swedish-German painter known for her landscape and portrait paintings, and her career as an educator, as well as her friendships with Bertha Wegmann and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Bauck began her career painting almost exclusively landscapes, and found moderate success doing so. She later expanded into portrait painting, and by the late 1890s was producing equal amounts of both. Most of the paintings produced throughout Bauck’s career are classified within the Barbizon style.

The Barbizon School is the name given to oil painters and others who were part of an art movement advancing Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. Roughly active from 1830 through 1870, the "school" gained its name from the village of Barbizon, France, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Most of their works were landscape painting, which occasionally included farmworkers, and genre scenes of village life. Some of the most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, colour, loose brushwork, and softness of form.

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